To Sam Lyttle, the truth is like an elephant. It's heavy, worrying and wrinkly. And when it's sitting in your way, you can't go under it or over it.

But you CAN skirt round it So Sam does, every now and then, tell the odd porky-pie, much to the annoyance of his family.

But is there more to Sam's occasional streeeetching of the truth than meets the eye?

The first book in this laugh-out-loud series by author and illustrator Joe Berger. ' truly funny, with verbal, visual and fart jokes appealing not only to those who find reading heavy going.' Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times' Children's Book of the Week