One of the advantages of being flat is that he can be mailed in an envelope to his friends and so he can share adventures all over the world. The premise of the original story i is that Stanley Lambchop was flattened during his sleep when a bulletin board that was hung over his bed fell on him. It turns out that Flat Stanley is a children’s book written by Jeff Brown and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer in 1964. So, after the pictures were taken and we had sent them on their merry way, I did some research about just who in the world was Flat Stanley. Now, it has been awhile since we had children in elementar y school and I, quite frankly, had not heard of Flat Stanley, at least not to my memory. (I realize that he could not have responded to our inquiry, but that is beside the point I am trying to make.) He was someone to be used for a specific purpose, not someone to get to know for his own sake. But we did not really care if he wanted to participate in playing cards or going to the arena for basketball – we never asked. We were careful with Flat Stanley: we did not hurt him or put him in peril. I saw Flat Stanley as a cute, paper cut‐out boy who we hand‐positioned in various scenes for use in a school project. Now, I know that this was a school project for our granddaughter. Then I began actually thinking about Flat Stanley. When we were done, we were looking at the pictures and chuckling at how we had gotten Flat Stanley in so many different positions, activities, etc. When we were done, we emailed the pictures to our daughter‐in-love so she could do whatever next was necessary for our granddaughter to finish her project. We had a good time thinking about where we could position Flat Stanley for another shot. She then asked that we send the pictures to her for a project at school.īeing the accommodating grandparents that we are, we took many pictures of Flat Stanley, at home, in the car, at a restaurant, in the RV, at a meeting, at the church soundboard, even at a basketball game and later playing cards with us. It contained a cut out picture figure of a young boy, smiling and ready for adventure along with a letter advising that we were the ones to provide him with that adventure! We were told that this was Flat Stanley and she was asking us to take him with us and to take pictures of him as we went about our day. Several years ago we received an envelope in the mail box from our granddaughter who, at the time, lived in Louisiana.

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