Review: Maggie Mouse Learns that Lying Can Hurt the Innocent in Ways She Never Considered:
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2013
This book is colorful and tells a simple story about the problem of lying.  When Maggie Mouse sees how her lie hurts an innocent party, she realizes that she needs to correct things.Children can 'awful-ize' a predicament. Youngsters can worry so much about punishment that they choose the easier solution -- lying.  The mother's reaction supports the idea that admitting to a wrong usually doesn't bring about those 'awful consequences' that children fear.I don't agree with the reviewers who grouse that there isn't enough story.  Young child get the meaning best when the story stays very focused on that point.