The Great Big Book of Everything

"The Great Big Book of Everything" is a magical book owned by Stanley Griff in the 2001 series Stanley. It is a book on all kinds of animals, and it can be used to travel into the habitats of those animals and even bring the animals themselves out of the book and back. It is shown that Stanley's grandmother owns a copy of the book. In fact, it was his grandmother who gave Stanley his own copy of the book as a gift for his 4th birthday.
The book is indexed by letter and sometimes when looking up animals, Stanley and sometimes his friends will sing "The Alphabet Song". In other cases, a brief instrumental of the tune may be heard.
Mention of the book almost invariably prompts the appearance of Stanley's dog and cat Harry and Elsie who perform a song about the book and the animal which Stanley is looking up within it. This is the chagrin of Stanley's goldfish, Dennis, who loathes the song.
According to Stanley's Great Big Book of Adventure, the book was first started in prehistoric times by a special caveman who drew a picture of a smilodon (who posed for the picture) on a leaf with an early version of the pencil and put it in a stone book cover. Later in and at the time of ancient Egypt, an little Egyptian boy expanded the book by drawing a camel while riding one among others. The book grew more during the Middle Ages in medieval Europe as a princess drew info about horses (including the one that a knight was on). It was around the Golden Age of piracy that the book starts to develop its magical powers when a pirate and his parrot were studying whales using the book when the picture of a whale began to move and splash them with water. One day at the time of the Age of Enlightenment, a female scientist completed the book. Not only was the book dubbed "The Great Big Book of Everything" and the scientist and her assistant came up with the lyrics to the book's song they were also the very first people to travel into the book. This was how the book was created. Several copies of it were made, but few of them exist in the present, and they were only entrusted to the smartest, wisest, and bravest people (like Stanley).
In that special, Lionel accidentally gets sucked into the book, and when Stanley and Dennis go in to find him, Harry and Elsie accidentally cause all of the pages to fall out while frantically trying to hide it from Stanley's mother. Not only did it scramble the book's animals and their habitats, but until all the pages are put back in their correct place, nothing and no one was able to go in or out of the book. While Harry, Elsie, Marci, Mimi, and Lester put the pages back in order to restore the book, Stanley and Dennis continue their search for Lionel.
== Abilities ==
The book contains a world inside of it and can open portals that allow people to enter its world if they want. It can also bring animals or objects into and out of it. The book can also grant people special abilities such as altering their sizes, turning them into animals, or giving them the ability to fly. Despite its magical capabilities, it is unable to share its information directly; Dennis does this on the book's behalf. It is possible that the book can influence its magic on computers as Stanley and friends could enter the book's world through computer screens (as similar portals appear on the screen).
==Known Animals in the Book==
* Aardvark
* Alligator
* Angelfish
* Ant
* Anteater
* Armadillo
* Bald eagle
* Bat
* Bear
** Grizzly bear
** Polar bear
* Beaver
* Bee
* Beetle
* Bison
* Bluebird
* Bobcat
* Butterfly
** Monarch butterfly
* Camel
** Bactrican camel
** Dromedary
* Canada goose
* Cat
* Ceader waxwing
* Chameleon
* Cheetah
* Chicken
* Chimpanzee
* Clownfish
* Conch
* Coral
* Cow
* Coyote
* Cricket
* Crocodile
* Dingo
* Dinosaur
** Ankylosaurus
** Brachiosaurus
** Ornithomimus
** Tyrannosaurus rex
* Dog
** Bloodhound
* Dolphin
** Bottlenose dolphin
** Orca
* Dragon
* Dragonfly
* Duck
* Eel
* Egret
* Electric eel
* Elephant
** African elephant
** Asian elephant
* Firefly
* Flamingo
* Flounder
* Flying fish
* Fox
* Frog
** Bullfrog
** Red-eyed tree frog
** Sonoran toad
* Gecko
* Gila monster
* Giraffe
* Goat
* Goldfish
* Gorilla
* Groundhog
* Hawk
* Hermit crab
* Hippopotamus
* Horse
* Hummingbird
* Hyena
* Impala
* Kangaroo
* Kangaroo rat
* Koala
* Komodo dragon
* Kookaburra
* Kōkako bird
* Leopard
* Lion
* Llama
* Lobster
* Manatee
* Mockingbird
* Monkey
** Capuchin
** Howler monkey
** Japanese macaque
** Mandrill
* Moose
* Mosquito
* Mouse
* Nightingale
* Ocelot
* Octopus
* Okapi
* Orangutan
* Ostrich
* Owl
** Great horned owl
** Snowy owl
* Panda
* Parrot
** Macaw
** Parakeet
* Peacock
* Pelican
* Penguin
* Peregrine falcon
* Pig
* Pigeon
* Platypus
* Pronghorn
* Prarie dog
* Pteranodon
* Puma
* Quail
* Rabbit
** Cottontail rabbit
** Jackrabbit
** Snowshoe hare
* Raccoon
* Raven
* Rhinoceros
* Ring-tailed lemur
* Roadrunner
* Robin
* Saber-tooth tiger
* Salmon
* Sawfish
* Scorpion
* Sea lion
* Sea otter
* Sea urchin
* Seagull
* Seahorse
* Shark
** Great white shark
** Hammerhead shark
** Whale shark
* Sheep
* Skunk
* Sloth
* Snake
** Anaconda
** Python
* Snow leopard
* Spider
** Garden spider
**Tarantula
* Squirrel
** Flying squirrel
** Grey squirrel
* Starfish
* Stingray
* Swan
* Tasmanian devil
* Termite
* Tiger
* Turkey
** Domestic turkey
** Wild turkey
* Turtle
** Desert tortoise
** Musk turtle
** Painted turtle
** Sea turtle
* Umbrellabird
* Vole
* Walrus
* Whale
** Blue whale
** Humpback whale
** Sperm whale
* Wildebeest
* Wombat
* Woodpecker
* Wolf
* Worm
* X-ray fish
* Yak
* Zebra
==Animal Gallery==
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GBBE Vole.png
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GBBE Wildebeest.png
GBBE Wolf.png
GBBE Wombat.png
GBBE Woodpecker.png
GBBE X-Ray Fish.png
GBBE Yak.png
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