This week I read book two of the Flat Stanley series.
The book starts off a year after Stanley had been flattened. Arthur and Stanley were up in their room doing homework, and often became side tracked. When on the beach, Stanley found a teapot that washed up to shore. Stanley was trying to make it shine by rubbing the teapot. All of a sudden it started to puff! Puff! Puff! All of a sudden a scary cloud appeared. The Genie introduced himself as Prince Fawzi Mustafa Aslan Mirza Mele Namerd Haraz, but he said to call him Prince Haraz. I thought it was super cute of Stanley to run out to the living room to ask his parents permission to ask the Genie his wishes.
Arthur was still freaked out by this whole event. A Genie was in his room, and Arthur was under the bed in fear. The Genie assured Arthur that everything was alright. The first wish the boys wished for was for their homework to be done, because their parents did say it had to be finished before they could wish for anything. Out popped a basket, named Askit Basket, that talked like a sports announcer on TV He told them the answers and printed out a copy. Arthur then asked for his paper to be finished, then printed a paper with his hand writing on it. They then asked for a lion, and then changed their mind mid-wish to an elephant, so it came out to be a liophant.
They had a family outing to the local park. They were showing the Prince Haraz the sights and Mrs. Lambchop was talking about what it might be like to be famous. With a slight nod from Stanley to the Genie, her wish was granted. A tour bus full of people, stopped and everyone rushed her asking for her autograph and to take pictures with her. She was interviewed by local and national tv stations, and magazines. There was a pro tennis player Tom, and he was growing very jealous of the attention Mrs. Lambchop was receiving. Mr. Lambchop played a match against Tom, and lost terribly. Prince Haraz and the rest of the family felt sorry for Mr. Lambchop, so they made him a really good tennis player. He did a rematch with Tom the professional tennis player, and won!
After a long day at the local park, the brother's were upstairs getting ready for bed. Arthur was a big jealous, because he was not getting any attention and never really had a "true" wish. Stanley allowed him one wish, and he wished to be the strongest man alive. His wish was granted and he lifted up the desk in the room, like it was paper. Realizing he should be lifting bigger things, since he was the world's strongest man, they asked to be able to fly. They all three, including the Prince Haraz, zoomed out the window and flew past airplanes, and stopped crime on a cruise ship. Arthur was able to use his strength by freeing the captain and pushing the helicopter back down on the ship to get the robbers out of the helicopter.
The book ends with everyone in the boys' bedroom. Their parents were freaked out, when they came up to the room and the window was open and no one to be found. Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop told them they had to reverse all their wishes. Luckily they had only wished for seven things, and had a maximum of fifteen wishes. So with reversing everything, they had one last wish. Arthur told Stanley to wish that the Genie would be set free to be with his friends. Prince Haraz was shocked, no one in the history has never wished for a Genie to be set free. The boys went to bed, and the parents kissed them goodnight.
In this book we found out that Mrs. Lambchops real name is Harrett, and Mr. Lambchop's name is George.
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