The boy who cried wolf by B. G Hennessy illustrated by Boris Kulikov

A young boy is left behind to protect the sheep from wolves while his dad went into the city. The boy thinks it’s funny to yell to the town that there is a wolf. Repeatedly he lies about a wolf being there just to get the whole town to run to the field and go searching for the wolf. He finally learns his lesson when this father returns and there is actually a wolf taking the sheep. The town was conditioned by the boy’s lies don’t respond to his pleas for help and the sheep are gone. Not only are the sheep gone but each time the boy called for help, each of the towns people lost something of their own. The illustrations in this book definitely help the reader particularly young ones see the emotion in both the young boy and the frustrated town people. This fable can be used to teach young children to be honest or it could come back and bite them. I would read this book to a kindergarten or first grade class to teach the value of honesty.