This is a cute, quirky, fun book for children and adults of all ages to enjoy. The "lies" range from common to surreal, and the illustrations are gorgeous. I was delighted with each turn of the page!

This review was written from an advance copy of the book in ebook format. My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an amusing if quick read. The pictures are of course the best bits the supposed lies are very odd in my experience but maybe i didn't have a very imaginative mother?
Something for the stocking I would say - a light fun book by a very good artist.

This book is one of those "Santa is not real" moment. It is so funny. I never expected it to be like this. It's a quick reads. I love the arts that accompanied each lies our parents told us. And how ridiculous it sounded now that we're an adult and the drawings made it much more ridiculous.

I was expecting this little book to be full of really sweet and funny anecdotes about the lies people have told their children, along with accompanying child-friendly illustrations.

What I got was a picture of a rabbit messily eating a human finger and a load of 'meh' lies that have presumably been told to children. There's no doubting the talent of the illustrator, but I think that this book missed the mark where it comes to choosing its audience.

1.5 Stars.

I'm not really sure who this book is meant to be for. It didn't seem to be intended for kids or adults in my opinion. A lot of the examples were kind of messed up and I wouldn't tell kids those things. I did sort of like the illustrations though and that's the only reason why this isn't a 1 star book for me. Maybe it just wasn't for me but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

* I received a free copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This short volume is the perfect gift for your former college roommate who is now a new parent. These delightfully warped lies are wonderfully illustrated. One of the few "traditional" lies in the book is "If you cross your eyes, they will stay that way". These lies may start silly, but sometimes go dark (think rats with two heads and dragons hatching from your shoes to the absurd (George Washington in space). Delightfully zany.

This book of compilation of some of the witty things that parents tell their kids is really entertaining to read. While reading, I just remember some of the silly lies used by my sister and cousins as a way to scared me when I was still young. Some of those are: a snake or worm will come out of unhealed wound; a monster will try to get me if don't take an afternoon nap; and lastly if you cross your eyes, they'll get stuck that way.

I would definitely recommend this to my friends who already have kids on their own. Let's see if they will also use these lies to scare their child.

This book is really funny and had me laughing out loud as I can remember my parents telling me quite a number of these things! Especially "Sticking you finger up your nose" and "Crossing your eyes". The illustrations are done very well too!

I was sure this book was going to be among my favourites.
It makes me sad to say that it isn't my cup of tea.

Don't get me wrong, the illustrations were unbelievably beautiful and I loved some of the lies included in this piece even though I've never heard most of them and some are too creepy to tell your child. The thing is that I didn't find it great, maybe I was like Tommy Nilsson and had too many expectations?

This is a darkly humorous book with really wonderful illustrations from Brett E. Wagner and Animal Media Group. The illustrations are beautiful. The 'lies' are not really commonly told lies so much as weird 'what ifs'. I wasn't familiar with most of them, though a few (if you pick your nose, your finger will get stuck, if you cross your eyes, they'll get stuck that way, etc) I had heard in my misspent youth. Many of them were straight up odd and seemed a bit like the author was trying to think of anything to pad out the book somewhat.

That being said, it's a short (105p.) book with gorgeous illustrations by a very talented author.

If you think of it in the same vein as Go the F**k to Sleep or Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book then it's quite a bit funnier. I enjoyed it.

PS If my mom told me dragons came from stinky shoes, I guarantee I'd never have changed my socks or shoes again, just on the off chance of getting my own dragon :)

Nice illustrations. A
Hadn't heard of a lot of these lies. Very short read

Okay, NOT what I thought I was getting at all. Disappointed? Maybe more like surprised! I've never heard of most of those "lies" listed, except perhaps for "If you cross your eyes, they'll get stuck that way." Some were so-so, and then there are those I'd consider horror--i.e., "Most rabbits have not developed the taste for flesh...Most." Huh? The accompanying illustration is awful. No, these aren't lies you'd tell your children, whether or not you are in the U.S., and I'm not sure where they came from. Really, I suspect these were aimed solely at adults, who'd be the only ones who could understand the illustration for "Seals love clubbing." The illustrations, for the most part, are extremely colorful and very eye-catching. A number of the color combinations startling, almost beautiful. Because it is literally a short picture book, my concern might be that the book is thought to be for children. It's not. It's a very dark sense of humor on display here--perhaps if it came with a warning? I was offered this download by the publisher and NetGalley and appreciated the read and review.

This is for those parents with a very dark sense of humour. The lies in the book are mostly new to me, and I would consider them to be lies that I wish I could tell my kids. The illustrations are beautiful.

While only two of the "lies" were ones that were actually told to me while growing up, the remaining "lies" were quite clever and a couple made me laugh out loud, like the one about screech owls stealing babies and selling them to storks. The illustrations are also very good and were perfect for the text.

I thought I was going to love this book. I love the title and was hoping it would be something to share with my grandson, or a twisted an adult book along the lines of "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs". It was a fail on both. There were a cpuole of believable lies, but most didn't make sense or were beyond disturbing. I gave it 3 stars instead of 2 because the art work was impressive.
With some tweaking, and using actual lies we tell our kids....this could be a really cute book.

I'm not too sure what I think about this book. It has a good premise but I can't actually see parents telling their kids 90% of these things. The editing choices were great and I liked the pictures, it's just, as an adult, I don't really believe what is in the book is really told to kids and it doesn't seem to be a book for kids. However, I think this would be a brilliant book for trickster parents to read to get ideas to mess with their kids' heads. If your into that sort of thing.

I feel like the book would have been better named LIES WE WISH OUR PARENTS THOUGHT OF WHEN WE WERE KIDS. Some of the standards are in there ("Thunder is angels bowling") with an up-to-date twist ("lightning is when they take selfies"), but there were also some hysterical ones I'd certainly never heard before. I asked my husband if he thought if he'd heard "Bubblegum you swallow would make you fart bubbles" he'd have swallowed any piece he could get his hands on. The answer was an automatic "Of course".

In line with books like GO THE F*CK TO SLEEP, this book is intended to amuse adults and it truly does just that. Thinking it needs to be added to the "Books for new parents" list we keep to give as gifts.

The concept of this book is quite interesting and I liked the idea. A couple of the little white lies were ones that I had heard before but then they got sort of ridiculous. These are not lies that I would ever think of telling a child and I hope no one else would. This I hoped would be a fun little book that made me think of the things I heard when I was a child. It just disappointed me. The illustrations were very good. I was looking for a good little laugh but it just was not funny at all.

<i>Lies We Tell Our Kids</i> is a book with a lie written on one page and an illustration of it on the other. The art in this book was a very good selling point. Many of the pictures themselves were what made me laugh because they were just so ridiculous and did well in showing how ridiculous and stupid these lies sound to us now. I also really enjoyed the illustration style, which for some reason reminded of the movie Tangled, which I think is a testament to how realistically they were drawn. The problem was I had never heard of most lies, the exceptions being the ones about your body getting stuck in certain ways, so the laughs were more so for the ridiculous situations and the lies were just there as captions for me. It probably didn't help that I was reading these on an ereader, so I couldn't see the colour of any of the pictures, therefore the ones about colours, like turning teal if you swallow mouthwash, didn't really affect me in anyway. All in all, this is a fun book to flip through and cut stuff out of to paste on your walls, but I don't find it particularly relatable.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book and would highly recommend to others!