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"Tell the truth and shame the devil," Libby's mama has told her. So whatever is Libby doing wrong? Ever since she started telling only the truth, the whole world seems to be mad at her. First it's her best friend, Ruthie Mae, who gets upset when Libby tells all their friends that Ruthie Mae has a hole in her sock. Then Willie gives her an ugly look when she tells the teacher he hasn't done his homework. It seems that telling the truth isn't always so simple.

Children will sympathize with Libby as she struggles to figure out that even though it's always wrong to tell a lie, there's a right and a wrong way to tell the truth. Giselle Potter's naively ...

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Overview

"Tell the truth and shame the devil," Libby's mama has told her. So whatever is Libby doing wrong? Ever since she started telling only the truth, the whole world seems to be mad at her. First it's her best friend, Ruthie Mae, who gets upset when Libby tells all their friends that Ruthie Mae has a hole in her sock. Then Willie gives her an ugly look when she tells the teacher he hasn't done his homework. It seems that telling the truth isn't always so simple.

Children will sympathize with Libby as she struggles to figure out that even though it's always wrong to tell a lie, there's a right and a wrong way to tell the truth. Giselle Potter's naively stubborn illustrations perfectly capture this humorous and poignant story by award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack.

After promising never to lie, Libby learns that it's not always necessary to blurt out the whole truth either.

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"Speak the truth and shame the devil," says Libby Louise Sullivan's mother after Libby Louise tells her a fib. Her own shame far outweighs the punishment dealt out by her mother, and Libby Louise vows, "From now on, only the truth." But the girl's strict enforcement of her own rule soon lands her in deep water. She alienates a host of people: her best friend by publicly pointing out a hole in her sock; a classmate by tattling on him; and a neighbor by critiquing her garden. McKissack (Let My People Go) thoroughly examines a common childhood problem--discerning when the truth helps and when it hurts--with homespun language and accessible situations. The intimate settings so integral to Potter's (Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!) folk-art style provide a fitting complement to the author's cozy community. Her depictions of an alternately astonished and contrite Libby Louise, who winds up feeling the sting of truth herself, will likely cause readers to recall their own chagrin in similar circumstances. Ages 4-8. (Jan.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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"McKissack thoroughly examines a common childhood problem-discerning when the truth helps and when it hurts-with homespun language and accessible situations," wrote PW. "The intimate settings so integral to Potter's folk-art style provide a fitting complement to the author's cozy community." Ages 4-8. (Jan.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780689826689
  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Publication date: 2/28/2000
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 40
  • Sales rank: 365,116
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: 450L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 9.50 (w) x 11.20 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Patricia C. McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award

winner; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go, written with her

husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award; The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Giselle Potter is the author and illustrator of The Year I Didn't Go to School, which is based upon her travels around Italy with her family's theater troupe at age seven. She is also the illustrator of The Brave Little Seamstress and Kate and the Beanstalk, both by Mary Pope Osborne, The Honest-to-Goodness Truth by Patricia C. McKissack, and Gabriella's Song by Candace Fleming. Ms. Potter lives in Rosendale, New York.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 15, 2006

    This book is divine!

    If you want to teach children the difference between bare-faced truth and tact, this is the book for you. My students and I love this book.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 25, 2011

    Highy Recommended

    My 3 1/2 yr old daughter loves this book and I love to read it to her. Sometimes I have to hide it or else i will have to read it all day every day. I thought she would be to young to understand but she gets it she loves when i use diffreent voices for diffrent charcters. LOVe it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2003

    Don't Lie

    In the book The honest-to-goodness truth was a great book. Libby shows that lying is wrong, but also finds that telling the truth sometimes can really be hurtful. Libby learns a lesson by hurting others she cares about because she thought that telling the truth was the right thing to do. Libby's mom tells her 'sometimes the truth is hold at the wrong time or in the wrong way, or for the wrong reasons. And that can be hurtful.' Libby learned her lesson that the honest to goodness truth is never wrong. I really enjoyed this book and I learned a good lesson from Libby about lying and telling the truth.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2000

    HOLDING-YOUR-SIDE-TEARS-IN-YOUR-EYES KIND OF FUNNY! HONEST!

    The Honest-to-Goodness Truth is the funniest children's book I've read in a long time. Libby is so loveable and the author does a wonderful job of bringing each character to life. Potter's art work is perfect for Libby and her world of family and friends! My four year old son LOVES this book, as do I. I look forward to reading it for a bedtime story and an in between time story as well!

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