The First Honest Book about Lies [Paperback]

Jonni Kincher (Author), Pamela Espeland (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1992

Readers learn how to discern the truth from lies through a series of activities, games, and experiments.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing (August 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915793431
• ISBN-13: 978-0915793433
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,632,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great springboard for family discussions., December 3, 1998

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This review is from: The First Honest Book about Lies (Paperback)

This book was written primarily to help teenagers cope with the distortions, deceptions, fluff, and outright lies that confront us all, every day. Kincher doesn't preach truth, she illuminates it. Her book is thought provoking ... and fun ... no matter how old you are.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Liar Liar pants on fire!, January 14, 2001

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Erin Kelley (Los Gatos, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The First Honest Book about Lies (Paperback)

This book tells you about every kind of lie there is! You can really relate to this book, you learn a lot about yourself in reading it and it helps to think honestly about what you have read, that is how you learn! I am a freshman in high school, and as many of you know, its not easy. Sometimes you don't kow who your friends are... This book helped with that because you know more about how and why they lie, more than they do! I have enjoyed this book very much. It has helped me to notice when my family and friends are lying to me. Its made me aware of how media and advertisers lie too. The world is full of lies! I think that anyone, any age, can relate to this book. Everyone is different, and every lie is different. I highly suggest this book!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars very poorly done, August 29, 2008

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This review is from: The First Honest Book about Lies (Paperback)

This book is supposed to teach children to understand how "facts" can be used to fool them, lie to them, and influence them. A great idea. BUT this book does the very things it proclaims it is warning your children about. Because incorrectly done statistics or science can be passed off as the real thing to those who don't look at how they were done, the author seems to have a dislike of all math and science. Yes, please question statistics, but don't throw out the information they may contain just because they are statistics -- if done right, they do have true information. I certainly don't want my children to dislike math or science. I want them to enjoy them and learn how they are done correctly. This will allow them to learn to identify when they are done incorrectly -- I thought that this book would help with that, but it didn't. This book appears to have a political agenda, which it does not admit to -- thus it is not an "honest" book about lies. The thinking and discussion that this topic can bring out in a family is great, but this book is not a good springboard for discussion.