Stanley audiobook

One of the reasons that I love this book (aside from the fact that I have fond memories of it as a child, including Syd Hoff coming to our school and signing my copy, which my mother subsequently gave away and I've never seen it again) is that it quietly challenges gender stereotypes for boys. Today, it's all about girl empowerment, which is great, but both sides of gender ideologies should be challenged. It's interesting that a book from this era does that, as it was written at a time when gender roles were fiercely delineated. Stanley, in a community of "manly" cavemen, questions the status quo, including, not only his housing choice, but what he enjoys to pass the time. He is kind to animals, disinterested in club-wielding, and openly likes to do things like paint pictures and plant flowers. It's a fun little story great for early readers, but as the mother of a son, I love that it also shows the attributes of nonconformity - even when it means challenging the stereotypes of your own gender.

This was my favorite book when I was six years old. It was my younger brother's favorite book too. We must have read it thousands of times.

Syd Hoff's Stanley is the poor person's Fred Flintstone you've been waiting for. If you say you haven't, you're in denial. Stanley is a humble caveman who's also the world's very first trendsetter, a Neander-awwww! who's really the nicest guy in all of prehistory. The other cave-dudes frown at his kindness to others, to his painting cute pictures which, in a thousand years, archaeology students will find in caves and sell on eBay for a cool ten trillion dollars! The cave-dudes want Stan to be a MAN, since under unwritten law in the book of Dino Mentality, real men carry clubs to smack brontos upside the head (or their wives but that's mostly caveman legend). But Stanley doesn't listen, and gets outcast from cave society since, it turns out, he's more of a man than these other brutes. Stanley can't possibly live under a rock or in a tree. So he does the unexpected thing of putting rocks together with some sticky stuff called cement, and lo he has invented....the house! The other cave-dudes? They only ever came up with fire. Not impressed. Not based on a true story....but you can never tell!Four starsStanley helps you do things really right!!!

This was honestly one of my favorite books as a small child. I read it so much the spine fell off and the whole thing fell apart. Cute read and a wonderful message.

I like this book because at the end they all got along

I like how this book uses a subtle way to explain that it is OK to be yourself even if other people don’t always like it. You will always be happier being true to yourself.

This book takes the children back to the caveman era. Nicely done, and a nice change from the 'same ole same ole' storybooks. A caveman doesn't like living in a cave where it was cold. He liked being nice to animals and others. But the other cavemen doesn't like him being different. So they chase him away. But he doesn't care he goes on being the same nice person he always has been. He builds himself an actual house and later his friendship he tried to make with the other cavemen came back as they all came to welcome him back to the caves. But he doesn't want to go back to cave living and taught them to be nice and built them homes.