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Hartman, Bob

The Wolf Who Cried Boy

32 pp. | Putnam | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23578-7 $$15.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Raglin. Tired of Lamburgers and Sloppy Does for dinner, Little Wolf stalls off another unappetizing meal by pretending he's seen a boy in the woods, thereby sending his parents on a frantic search-and-capture mission. After falling for the same trick twice, they resolve to ignore Little Wolf the next time he cries "Boy." The pen-and-ink illustrations emphasize comic exaggeration in this upside-down version of the familiar fable.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2002