Flat Stanley in Space
I wonder if you’ve ever heard of the Flat Stanley children’s books. Written back in the 90s by Jeff Brown, they are the quirky story of an American boy called Stanley Lambchop who had the misfortune of being squashed to being only an inch in thickness when a heavy pinboard fell on him in the night. Miraculously he survives, and lives the rest of his life as “Flat Stanley” and carries out all sorts of adventures. I’m currently reading “Stanley in Space” to my youngest daughter. Flat Stanley, due to his previous experiences, gets asked by the President of the United States to go with his mum and dad on a special mission into space to meet a group of aliens. All is going well, until they lose radio contact with earth, and it turns out that this alien race, called the Tyrrans, far from being friendly are out to capture Stanley and his spaceship, making them prisoners of their planet Tyrra. Most scary of all is when they see an extremely large alien with a big moustac...