Over the years Flat Stanley has become a pop culture phenomenon as well as an educational tool. Classrooms around the world exchange cut-out Flat Stanleys and keep journals as a way for kids to learn about other parts of the world. Inspired by Flat Stanley’s trip to California inside an envelope, Canadian educator Dale Hubert created the Flat Stanley Project for his grade three students and in 1995 put it on the Web. His positive attitude helps him cope with the physical disadvantage and propels him into a series of adventures. In the original book, by writer Jeff Brown and illustrator Tomi Ungerer, Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning flattened by his bulletin board. The Flat Stanley books are perfect for newly independent readers thanks to the fun illustrations, short chapters and crazy adventures.The central character in a series of children’s books dating back to 1964, Flat Stanley has a second career as a globetrotting educational tool, thanks to the Internet’s Flat Stanley Project. There are benefits to Stanley’s strange predicament - he can slide under doors and be posted to his friends for a holiday - but it’s not always easy being different and, once the novelty begins to wear off, Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else again. Since the night a giant pinboard fell on top of him, he has been completely flat. Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. And in 2017, more than fifty years after the first book was published, new editions were released illustrated by award-winning author/ illustrator Rob Biddulph. Since the author’s death in 2003 several other writers, including Sara Pennypacker and Jon Mitchell, have continued Jeff Brown’s books in Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures. What started out as a bedtime story for author Jeff Brown’s sons, soon became a bestseller and there are now more than twenty Flat Stanley books, published all over the world. Flat Stanley is a classic American children’s book series for readers 5+.
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