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Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure!

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In this 50th anniversary edition, sign up for Flat Stanley and the remainder of the Lambchop family on the adventure that started it all!

Kids love Flat Stanley—even reluctant readers. And for parents and teachers, each Flat Stanley book delivers multicultural adventure, plot and character development story elements, and compare and contrast.

When Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning, his brother, Arthur, is yelling. A bulletin board fell on Stanley all over the night, and now he is only half an inch thick! Amazing things begin happening to him. Stanley gets rolled up, mailed, and flown like a kite. He even gets to help catch two dangerous art thieves. He may be flat, but he’s a hero.

“With a number of pictures and goofy situations, this can be a short, delightful story that young readers have loved for generations.” (Brightly.com)

Poor Stanley. He’s a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. After his parents peel the incriminating bulletin board off of him, Stanley will have to adjust to life as a pancake. He is a boy who takes this sort of thing in stride, though, and soon he’s enjoying some great benefits of squashedness. Sliding under closed doors is fun, and it’s gratifying to be of use to his mother when she drops her ring through a narrow metal grating. Expensive plane fare to California? No problem. Svelte Stanley folds comfortably into a brown paper envelope. There’s even room left over in there for an egg-salad sandwich. But Stanley’s true moment of glory comes when a gang of thieves begins stealing paintings from the Famous Museum of Art. The case seems hopeless–until our two-dimensional hero saves the day. Here is one boy who doesn’t let his profile-challenged body stop him from living life fully–that may be, until his brother finds a way to help him turn into well rounded again. Jeff Brown’s matter-of-fact tone and Tomi Ungerer’s witty and engaging drawings tickle the funny bone, making this 1964 classic a perennial favorite. (Ages 4 to 8) –Emilie Coulter

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