The Stinky Truth

By Joe Berger

Sam Lyttle learns that sometimes the truth can hurt just as much as a lie in this follow-up to the humorous and cheeky illustrated middle grade novel The Pudding Problem, which Kirkus Reviews calls perfect for “fans of Timmy Failure and Big Nate.”

It’s school break and Sam Lyttle has big plans. Then, Mom gives him a challenge: Sam can only go to see Cry Wolfe, starring his all-time favorite crime-fighting hero, if he makes it through the school break without telling a single lie.

Will our serial fibber pass the challenge? And why can’t Pudding the cat stop farting?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Release date: Dec 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781481470889

Joe Berger

Joe Berger is a prize-winning illustrator and animator. In 2011 he was a winner of Booktrust’s Best New Illustrators Award. In 2010 Joe was the official illustrator for World Book Day. He has also illustrated Frank Cottrell Boyce's continuation of Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon.

Book preview

Have you ever felt the weight of the world on your shoulders?

Have you ever wanted, desperately, to be able to turn back the clock, and do something differently—or not do something at all?

If you haven’t, you’re lucky.

It’s the loveliest feeling to have nothing preying on your mind, no dark clouds looming. . . . I felt like that once—for just a few fleeting moments. Three weeks ago, at the beginning of the summer break . . .

It’s been a stressful year, but my worries have evaporated with the coming of summer.

For a long time, the bane of my life was the school bully,

FEENY.

But since he got made to join the principal’s Garden Gang, everything’s changed. I have to