Project founder Dale Hubert received the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence for his creation of the Flat Stanley Project. I agree with Mookie that this is such an awesome addition to the books. The book took on a whole new life in 1995, with the initiation of the Flat Stanley project, in which schoolchildren mailed cutouts of Stanley to distant friends and family, documenting where he went and what he did. Five additional books about Stanley were written by Mr.

Using his bicycle pump, he inflates Stanley back to his usual size and the family celebrates his cleverness.Īuthor Jeff Brown got the idea for this story when his sons, trying to stall for time before going to bed, asked what would happen if their bulletin board fell on one of them during the night. Stanley grows unhappy and Arthur comes up with a way to help.

Then people start making fun of him for his flatness. Stanley, working with the police, disguises himself as a painting to catch some art thieves at the museum. Arthur, the younger son, gets jealous of everything Stanley can do so Stanley lets Arthur use him as a kite. He can slide under doors and slip into sidewalk gratings (which he does to rescue a ring his mother dropped) and even fit inside an envelope to travel through the mail to visit a friend. After a while, Stanley learns to enjoy it. The plot in a nutshell: A flattened boy makes the best of his conditionĭuring the night, a bulletin board has fallen on the older son, Stanley, squashing him flat. The fact that more recent printings of the book have encouraged readers to make and mail their own Flat Stanley is just genius. What do you like about it? It’s absurd and I’ve always known and enjoyed that. How did you discover this book? A teacher read it to me in school. Who is Mookie? I was a kid in the Seventies and now I’m in charge of a dinosaur exhibit in the world’s biggest children’s museum! Lambchop said to her husband, George Lambchop. Written by Jeff Brown, Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer Harper Collins, 1964īreakfast was ready.

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