Author/Illustrator: Darren Farrell
Format: Hardcover
Published: Penguin Books, 2010

Doug-Dennis, a woolly cartoon sheep, and Ben-Bobby, his elephant best friend, go to the circus. "But before they could have any fun at all...Doug-Dennis did something dreadful." Not only did he eat all of Ben-Bobby's fresh-popped, buttery circus popcorn, but he denied it with a big "'NOT ME!'" The fib gets so big so quickly ("'I don't know what happened...maybe it was monsters...'"), that Doug-Dennis gets carried away - literally. Propelled by his fib, he floats up into the dark, far away from home, where he sees all the other miserable fibbers who got carried away by their fibs. There's only one way to get back to his best friend Ben-Bobby. He tells the truth, and he apologizes. "That big bold truth made those puny little fibs whiz and whir and disappear into nothing." Farrell's story is so engaging and his cartoon-style illustrations so chock-full of humor that kids will take the message to heart without even realizing it. Ages 5-7.