Sarah's Little Ghosts Book

When Sarah breaks her mother's favorite necklace, she lies to cover it up. But the lie isn't the only thing that comes out of her mouth. A little ghost pops out, too! And for every new lie Sarah tells, another ghost appears. There seems to be only one way to get rid of them, but which is scarier: living in your own haunted house, or telling the truth?
Brightly colored, funny illustrations bring this unique tale about an all-too-common problem to life in a way that young children can understand and relate to.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2 After accidentally breaking her mother's favorite necklace, Sarah tries to cover it up. But when she tells Mom that everything is fine, a little ghost pops out of her mouth. It sings out the truth about the necklace, but only Sarah can hear it. It hangs around, sitting between Sarah and Dad on the couch, flying around her bedroom, explaining, "I'm the ghost of secrets...I say the words you want to say but are too scared to." When Sarah tells another lie, another ghost appears. Soon they are everywhere until she comes clean. The story effectively captures the growing guilt and subsequent bad feelings of a child caught up in a lie, making it hard to cuddle with a parent or have a conversation. The ghosts are never particularly scary (picture fluffy marshmallow blobs with teasing expressions), and are an understandable metaphor for a guilty conscience. Sarah is a sweetly cartoonish girl, her large head dotted with freckles, and on most of the pages when she is dealing with her ghosts, her gray kitten and her mother or father are reassuringly visible in the background.-Susan Moorhead, New Rochelle Public Library, NY