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Synopsis
When the family washer goes on the blink, Mitchell and Stanley help out by taking the laundry over to the Eerie Laundromatic, where there are automatic button-loser machines, sock separaters, and other weird stuff. It takes special soaps and powders to make everything work, and when some of the gunk gets spilled on Stanley, he starts shrinking!
Is The Incredible Shrinking Stanley appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 8 and up.
Lighthearted adventure about two friends dealing with magical mishaps in a quirky town. Gentle humor with no violence, language, or scary content—pure wholesome fun.
What to know going in
This book has no graphic violence, no sexual content, and clean language.
Who'll love this
Mitchell and Stanley face a bizarre shrinking problem when laundry soap makes Stanley smaller and smaller—can they fix it before he disappears?