Stanley's Paint Box

by William Bee

Overview

Everybody's favorite hard-working hamster Stanley introduces young readers to simple color mixing.

Join Stanley and friends as they paint and create! Stanley brings his paint box full of rollers, sponges, and brushes to help his friends with a special project. They have red paint, blue paint, and yellow paint. But how will Stanley use the colors he brought to help Sophie make orange paint and Benjamin make green paint?

This early board book on color theory will appeal to toddlers who are eager to learn more about their world.

William Bee's beloved Stanley series is a trusted model for basic preschool concepts like colors and shapes, kindness and teamwork, jobs and daily routines. Toddlers will love hanging out with this adorable cast of friendly neighborhood critters in any of the available series titles. Help your little one collect them all!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682631867
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	03/03/2020
Series:	Stanley Board Books , #5
Pages:	18
Sales rank:	590,904
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

William Bee is an artist and commercial designer who has worked for renowned fashion houses, including Issay Miyake and Paul Smith. As well as writing children's picture books and board books, he races a vintage sports car, is an international skier, and when at home tends his lawns and meadow. He lives in England.

Editorial Reviews

"Stanley and his friends are darling, but the way Bee applies his colors is what's most eye-catching. The boxes look as though they were truly painted by children, a nice detail, and the sight of the animals themselves bedecked in splatters of paint rings true. . . . written at the right pace and level for little readers, offering illustrations that hit the mark. Paints a sweet and colorful story." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-02-26
Stanley and his friends learn how to mix colors while transforming ordinary cardboard boxes into a vibrant castle.

Bee’s hamster protagonist, Stanley, and his animal friends Sophie, Benjamin, and Little Woo are back in this board book. This time, they are taking white and primary paints and learning how to make secondary colors. Standing in a room full of cardboard boxes, they begin transforming them little by little, and readers will notice a red paw print, orange circles, and green stripes standing out against the brown. The work progresses until all the boxes (and animals) are decorated and cardboard towers assembled. Stanley and his friends are darling, but the way Bee applies his colors is what’s most eye-catching. The boxes look as though they were truly painted by children, a nice detail, and the sight of the animals themselves bedecked in splatters of paint rings true. All of the illustrations appear against a white background, and the text is set in a color block along the bottom of each spread; its color matches the described paint mixture in each spread. Stanley’s Toolbox finds Stanley helping Little Woo fix up his treehouse using everything from a glue gun to a drill. Though neither book does anything radically different, both are written at the right pace and level for little readers, offering illustrations that hit the mark.

Paints a sweet and colorful story. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews