Stanley Said No

Author: Meikle, Sue

Reading age: from c 3 years

Published on 16 July 2026 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Ladybird) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 32 pages
231 x 284 x 5 | 206g

A laugh-out-loud story about the perils of always saying ‘no’, brings together a brilliant new picture book duo, Sue Meikle and Denis Angelov. Stanley is a boy who loves to say ‘NO!’ And once he starts, he just can't stop.

He doesn’t want to sit sensibly on the bus. . . He doesn’t want to hold his mum's hand. . .

And ‘NO!’, he doesn’t want to wait in line!But one day on a trip to a museum, Stanley discovers that saying no can have monstrous consequences. Can Stanley find his way out of a sticky situation, or will he bite off more than he can chew?