The Flat Stanley Project
The students in Mrs. Marchetti's class read the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown each year. In the story, Stanley Lambchop is flattened by a bulletin board. His parents send him to California in an envelope to visit friends.
The students send their own Flat Stanley to family and friends out of state. Stanley has had many interesting adventures, in different parts of the United States. Stanley has even visited other parts of the world!!
Flat Stanley has been to Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., New York, California, Chicago (he even met Oprah!), Costa Rica, and Canada.
Thank you to all of the parents that helped their children sent Flat Stanley on vacation.
Where will Flat Stanley go on vacation this year?
The students send their own Flat Stanley to family and friends out of state. Stanley has had many interesting adventures, in different parts of the United States. Stanley has even visited other parts of the world!!
Flat Stanley has been to Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., New York, California, Chicago (he even met Oprah!), Costa Rica, and Canada.
Thank you to all of the parents that helped their children sent Flat Stanley on vacation.
Where will Flat Stanley go on vacation this year?
Meet the Author
Jeff Brown
Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. A graduate of the Professional Children's School, he provided a child's voice in a radio drama and appeared onstage.
A native New Yorker, Mr. Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964.
In Hollywood he worked for the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and was a story consultant at Paramount. Preferring to write himself, he sold fiction and articles to national magazines while working at The New Yorker, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and finally at Warner Books, where he was a senior editor until 1980.
Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. The latest, ''Stanley, Flat Again!,'' was published this year by HarperCollins Children's Books. (All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States, HarperCollins said Thursday.)
The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places.
The idea for Stanley came to him one night at bedtime when his sons J. C. and Tony were young and stalling for time. One asked what would happen if the big bulletin board on the wall were to fall on J. C., and Mr. Brown said he would most likely wake up flat. That led to speculation about what such a life might be like.
After writing ''Flat Stanley, '' Mr. Brown went on to ''Stanley and the Magic Lamp,'' ''Stanley in Space,'' ''Stanley's Christmas Adventure,'' ''Invisible Stanley'' and finally ''Stanley, Flat Again!''
Jeff Brown died in 2003 of a heart attack. His legacy lives on in his Flat Stanley books.
A native New Yorker, Mr. Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964.
In Hollywood he worked for the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and was a story consultant at Paramount. Preferring to write himself, he sold fiction and articles to national magazines while working at The New Yorker, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and finally at Warner Books, where he was a senior editor until 1980.
Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. The latest, ''Stanley, Flat Again!,'' was published this year by HarperCollins Children's Books. (All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States, HarperCollins said Thursday.)
The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places.
The idea for Stanley came to him one night at bedtime when his sons J. C. and Tony were young and stalling for time. One asked what would happen if the big bulletin board on the wall were to fall on J. C., and Mr. Brown said he would most likely wake up flat. That led to speculation about what such a life might be like.
After writing ''Flat Stanley, '' Mr. Brown went on to ''Stanley and the Magic Lamp,'' ''Stanley in Space,'' ''Stanley's Christmas Adventure,'' ''Invisible Stanley'' and finally ''Stanley, Flat Again!''
Jeff Brown died in 2003 of a heart attack. His legacy lives on in his Flat Stanley books.