The Boy Who Cried Shark

When Harry Hammer mistakenly thinks he sees a great white shark near Shark Point, he sends everyone into a panic and becomes the town joke when they all realize it was a false alarm.

When Harry Hammer mistakenly thinks he sees a great white shark near Shark Point, he sends everyone into a panic and becomes the town joke when they all realize it was a false alarm.

Simple rhyming text with pop-up illustrations.

Dive into the world of Harry Hammer, a hammerhead shark with a penchant for (mis)adventure in this fin-tastic start to a chapter book series. Harry Hammer is a hammerhead shark, although he’d rather be a great white shark, or a tiger shark—anything but himself. But when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster for Harry and his pals, he realizes the importance of being exactly who he is!

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running, until the day a wolf is really there and no one answers his call. Includes a word puzzle and reading tips for parents.

Ben has so often tried to convince people he has seen Bigfoot that when a real sasquatch arrives and borrows his bicycle, no one comes to see if Ben is telling the truth. Full color.

Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.

This modern version of one of Aesop's most famous ancient fables helps children to learn the very important lesson to not lie. "A liar will not be believed, even when he is telling the truth."