17 Children's Books About Lying To Help Your Kids Understand

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth teaches the difference between lying and telling the truth in the right way, and how there's a delicate balance in that. Libby thinks she's doing the right thing by telling only the truth, and friends are getting upset with her. "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," the description reads.

Adorable Ruthie finds a tiny camera on the playground, and as a lover of all things teeny tiny, she pockets the camera. All day long she feels bad about having the camera that isn't hers, but what will she decide to do? What's the right thing to do?

Everyone has experienced that pit in their stomach they get when they do something wrong, like lie. And when Levi starts telling lies, he realizes that he feels a storm inside of his tummy and outside. "This book is a great resource to help children understand not only the consequences of telling a lie, but also how one lie can often lead to telling several more," the description reads.

When their mom goes to the market, Brother and Sister break a lamp inside the house. And when their mom asks what happen, one little lie leads to another, and another... and another. Eventually, they have to tell her the truth, right?

The Empty Pot is an IRA-CBC Children's Choice and an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" book. The beautiful artwork and simple text tell the story about how honesty is always the best policy.

A Bike Like Sergio's shows just how hard it is to do the right thing — especially when you don't have a lot. Reuben wants a bike so badly, but his family can't afford it. When he finds $100, he is so excited that he has enough money to buy a bike like Sergio's. But he struggles with feeling guilty for not sharing it with his mom to help her with buying groceries, and also with not giving it back to the woman at the grocery store.

We've all heard about the boy who cried wolf, but what about the boy who cried Big Foot? This tale about lying has a new and unexpected narrator, and per the description, "demonstrates the value of telling the truth, the importance of establishing trust, and the possibility that a beast you created to get attention can become a real-life friend."

Kids will learn the difference between telling a story and telling a lie in this book featuring the character from the book Sam Is Never Scared.

This out-of-print book should definitely be part of your collection. When Kim arrives at her new school, she tells all of them her name is K.I.M. — Katherine Isabella Marguerite — a princess from.a royal family. She only wanted everyone to like her. But she finds out how her little "white lie" turns into an even bigger lie. As most lies tend to do. What will she do?

I loved Little Critter when I was a kid, and I'm looking forward to introducing him to my son — especially with this book about how even if you only tell part of the truth, that's still a lie, and there are consequences. And that telling the truth is always the right thing to do.

You have to teach your pet dragon to stop lying, but how? This story about a pet dragon that lies will help children figure out on their own how to teach someone that lying is bad and why it's important to tell the truth.

Remember the tale about George Washington — "I cannot tell a lie" — and the cherry tree? Well, Gilbert the opossum has to do a presentation on this very subject in his class, and when a very important prop goes missing, things go haywire when he blames everyone else for the missing prop.

When Little Croc finds a purse full of money, he is ecstatic. But he does the right thing, tells the truth, finds the owner, and returns the purse and all of the money. When he is rewarded for his honesty, he realizes that being honest is the best thing to do.

This hilarious book shows just what happens when you always blame the goat. Per the description, "children will love to pore over the funny illustrations, picking up clues that all is not as it seems between Jimmy Choat and the goat, Petunia P. Oat. Because Petunia knows who's really to blame, and before long the whole family will too."

What started out as a little fib for Doug-Dennis turns into a bigger and bigger lie. And as the lie gets bigger, Doug-Dennis flies higher, "until he's floating in the land of lies." He realizes that telling the truth is the only way to come back down to reality.

Mary Nhin's Ninja Life Hacks series always provides a fun and colorful way to introduce complex feelings, emotions, and skills to young children, and Dishonest Ninja tells the story about how it feels good to tell the truth, and when you tell a lie, it changes a part of yourself, little by little.

Lie-O-Meter is a beautifully illustrated book about Eli and his "knack for telling fibs." When his dog gets banned to the backyard because of one of his lies, he realizes how important it is to tell the truth.