The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman

My four year old pulled this off our designated library book shelf and cried, "This one's cool!"

We hadn't read it yet, but he was right. Hartman puts a new spin on the old tale of the shepherd boy who cries wolf, making the star tale-teller a little wolf who just wants to eat boy. "Why can't we have boy?" he whines, not wanting three-pig salad for dinner again. His parents tell him if he ever sees a boy, they'll catch it for him and they'll have boy for dinner. Thus begins a series of false sightings that ends like we all know it will: one day he really does see a boy and his parents think it's just another of his lies.