It's Only Stanley

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It's very late, and Stanley is up to something.Will you figure out what he's doing before his sleepy family does It's nighttime at the Wimbledons', and everybody hear odd noises. Walter looks around and finds Stanley, the dog, hard at work. 'He fixed the oil tank,' Walter tells his family. 'He cleared the bathtub drain.' But Stanley is up to something far more impressive. He's preparing for an interplanetary trip. And guess who's going along for the ride!

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A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book
Washington Post Best Children's Books of 2015
Boston Globe Best Books of 2015
Booklist Editors' Choice 2015
A Horn Book Fanfare Book
Huffington Post Best Picture Books of 2015 (Winner: Funniest)

"Delightful."The Boston Globe

"[A] superbly absurd tale . . . The rhyming text is natural and paced for surprise. And the droll watercolors handle facial expressions well from aggravation to awe to admiraton."The San Francisco Chronicle

* "Agee and his simple, droll watercolors return with a work that manages to be absurdist, alarming, andjust when you least expect itpoignant. . . . Very strange, and very, very wonderful."Booklist, starred review

* "Agee appeals to connoisseurs of the absurd, and he shapes ridiculous developments into a tightly composed and satisfying picture book."Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Funjust plain fun."Kirkus

"Agee knows what his young readers wantplain sillinessand he delivers. Hilarious."School Library Journal

Author Bio

Jon Agee is the beloved author and illustrator of many acclaimed picture books, including Terrific (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), Milos Hat Trick (an ALA Notable Book), and the recent Little Santa, an ALA Notable Book and recipient of five starred reviews. He lives in San Francisco, California.