Author: Jeff Brown
Illustrator: Scott Nash
Readability Score: 3.9Genre:Juvenile Fantasy
Sub Genre: Comedy
Theme: Being yourself- even when you feel invisible
Primary Character: Stanley
Secondary Character: Arthur, Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop
Awards: N/A
Date of Publication: 1996
Publishing Company: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0-06-009792-2
Brief Summary: Stanley while watching a storm and eating fruit (which everyone knows is a horrible combination) wakes up invisible! At first Stanley doesn't mind being invisible- he ties a balloon to hand so people can know where he is at. At school he gets to be on the newspaper (well his balloon does), then he helps a little boy win a bicycle race, he helps a man propose to his girlfriend, and eventually even catches bank robbers! All of this he could have only done while he was invisible. By the end of the book, however, Stanley is becoming depressed- his friends have forgotten about him and he is feeling isolated. Author who was at first jealous of all of his brothers attention, begins to miss his brothers face as well. So- they do the most logically thing- they fake a storm with running water and a flashlight and have Stanley eat raisins. Very cute story.
How you would us: I would read this to the students (or they can read alone if old enough), then I think it would be to have the students pretend they were invisible for a day- what would they do? Catch Bank Robbers? Eat Candy from the candy store? It would be fun to hear their own made up stories.
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