" In a nutshell: brotherly love under the microscope"
April 2018 Debut of the Month | Space, family relationships, friendships – they’re all cleverly and vividly described in this highly entertaining story. Stan, our nerdy but very likeable hero, wants nothing more than to win a telescope in the science fair so that he can study space, his passion.
The main obstacle to this and indeed all Stan’s hopes and wishes, is his little brother Fred, a dinosaur-obsessed five-year-old tornado of destruction and unpredictability. Super-orderly Stan resorts to a range of charts and measuring devices to fill us in on his life – pie-charts, ordinary charts, illustrated diagrams, Venn diagrams – and together with his lugubrious, sometimes agonised delivery, it makes for fast and very funny reading.
Readers will be on Stan’s side from the start, and this will speak to anyone who has, is or knows a younger brother or sister.
Sometimes the only way to make any sense of my life is to put it all into charts and diagrams . . . but even that just makes me realize how far away from normal my family is, especially my little brother Fred! I hope that you'll find some useful survival tips in this book, but if not, then at least it'll cheer you up to know your life is considerably less chaotic than mine! Stan loves everything to do with space, along with a calming, ordered environment, pie charts,and Venn diagrams.
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Sometimes the only way to make any sense of my life is to put it all into charts and diagrams . . . but even that just makes me realize how far away from normal my family is, especially my little brother Fred! I hope that you'll find some useful survival tips in this book, but if not, then at least it'll cheer you up to know your life is considerably less chaotic than mine!
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Planet Stan and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Planet Stan features in the following genres: Stories about Family and Friends, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations, Books Reviewed by our Reader Review Panels, Debuts of the Month, Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Planet Stan was written by Elaine Wickson and published by OUP Oxford
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