Humour for younger readers from a first-time children's author They looked like ordinary innocent pants but those pants had just hypnotised the headteacher! Tony Trebelli has a little trouble telling the truth He tells the most enormous lies in the world & nobody ever believes him That is until the day he gets his new pants When he tells his first fib they get a little warm When he tells his second there's a definite smell of burning By the time he's on his third there's smoke but Tony doesn't care Because each time this happens Tony's lies get believed! His pants have the power to hypnotise his teachers
- even Mrs Mc Mahon the headteacher herself However when Tony's pants suddenly get too hot to bear he finds himself naked in the playground Suddenly his lies become less appealing & Tony learns his lesson Taking the theme of the playground chant ' Liar liar pants on fire' Victoria Lloyd has written an hilarious story for younger readers With plenty of alliteration repetition & humour this is a terrific text for children able to read on their own but who don't want a longer novel This will be a highly illustrated text & with a theme of 'pants' every child will want to pick it up Pants it is not!