Stanley's Stick

Author: Hegley, John, Layton, Neal

Picture storybooks

Published on 5 April 2012 by Hachette Children's Group (Hodder Children's Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 32 pages, 4-colour
261 x 226 x 4 | 180g

Stanley's Stick is a teaming-up of hefty talents - glorious poet John Hegley and award-winning illustrator Neal Layton. Stanley's stick is not just a stick. With a stick in hand, Stanley's options are endless - he flies to the moon, writes in the sand, goes fishing, plays a whistle and rides a dinosaur - and his imagination takes over and the magic begins. Hegley's lyrical prose captures the free-wheeling expressiveness of childhood, and Layton's deceptively simple illustrations are full of wit and character. Sweet, magical and thoroughly entertaining, this is Hegley and Layton's first collaboration.