![]() ![]() But everything they ask for seems to have an unexpected side. His level-headed parents demand he and his brother finish off their homework before making any wishes, but that happens, the family gains a pet, and then goes out for the day in the company of the genie, forever tweaking reality at their wishes' command. ![]() This book revolves around him uncovering a genie in a lamp he'd found on a beach one day and that he was saving to be a present for his mother, Mrs Lambchop. ![]() He's just an ordinary boy, and demands extraordinary adventures to make him worth reading. Here, then, Stanley is – to point it mildly – not flat. Well, over the decades there have been six official books by Jeff Brown, and this was the first instance where I could find out for myself if I was ready for more of the same… Or perhaps it's not such a surprise – without giving too much away, the character had met with a certain change at the end of book one, and therefore wasn't exactly ready for more of the same. Bizarrely, however, despite the success of that first book it was twenty full years before the author picked up the pen to give Stanley this sequel. It was far too recently that I picked up Flat Stanley and met with a character now fifty years old for the first time, and found out how he got to be flat and what happened as a result. Summary: This series entry does suffer from the character not being as he should be, but it's still worth a quick look. ![]()
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