This book is about a stick owned by a boy called Stanley. But it is more than a stick because Stanley can make it into whatever he wants it to be through the power of imagination.
The text is full of colour. It starts with a sentence which is full of alliteration. Later the text breaks into all sorts of rhyme with the conventional rhyming couplet to the use of rhyming words littered within the same sentence. Of course you might have expected this anyway given the author is a renowned poet.
Then there are the pictures which are equally great. They are simple, colourful illustrations which include just the subtlest pieces of collage to bring places like Blackpool beach to life. The style reminds me a little of the way the Charlie and Lola books are put together.
To sum up the quote by The Times on the front cover says it all: “Everything a picture book should be.”
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed on Amazon here.)
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