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 Flat Stanley Gets Around Author: Elizabeth Cohen Source: Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY) Title: FLAT STANLEY LIVES A FULL LIFE Stanley told his parents how he felt. "It's the other kids I mostly mind," he said. They don't like me any more because I'm different. Flat." "Shame on them," Mrs. Lambchop said. "It is wrong to dislike people for their shapes. Or their religion, for that matter, or the colour of their skin." "I know," Stanley said. "Only maybe it's impossible for everybody to like everybody." "Perhaps," said Mrs. Lambchop. "But they can try." -- from Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown Flat Stanley is a cute little dude with a tie who gets around, thanks to thousands of elementary school students who have taken up his cause. A character from a 1964 children's book by Jeff Brown, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, Stanley was once a boy who was squished by a falling bulletin board. He decided to look at the bright side, which was that he could now travel the world cheaply -- by mailing himself. "This is accomplished when children around the world mail him to one another, or send him places to people they know and have them send him back, with all sorts of information on his travels," explains Lonna Pierce, librarian at MacArthur Elementary School in Binghamton, where Flat Stanley is not just a project, but an obsession. Additional Article Link: [Click HERE] | |
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| Flat Stanley Visits GA! | Jan 28th. at 11:34:53 am EST |
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by Gabrielle (Augusta, GA) - wc_xemail My cousin is an elementary school teacher. and sent us a Stanley. He visited us and saw Ft. Gordon Army Base, went on a ghost tour in Savannah and ate shrimp & grits! Apparently we were the only tour South of the Mason Dixon line for the northern Stanley. A great way to teach children about their country. |
| Flat Stanley | Jan 28th. at 8:40:14 am EST |
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by Canus (Dyess AFB, Tx) - wc_xemail My baby brother mailed me Stanley from Kentucky a few months ago for an assignment in his Kindergarden class. I took some pics around the bases plane park and he just loved it. I think it's a wondeful project that shows the kids different parts of the country if not the world. Remember if you get one, mail it back to the kid with the pics attached. |
| Stanley's Visit | Jan 27th. at 7:45:14 pm EST |
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by erin (middleburg hts, OH) - wc_xemail Flat Stanley came to visit my cousin. My aunt took him shopping with her, and she took a picture of him in his car. My cousin's teacher was really impressed since he was the only kid in the class who actually did the project. |
| *grins From Ear To Ear* | Jan 27th. at 6:13:50 pm EST |
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by Dame Hannah (mid-michigan) - wc_xemail I love projects like this. they remind me of a bear my dad gave my mom when they first started dating. his name is Honey Bear and he's been EVERYWHERE. Honey Bear's went home for the summer with every forgien exchange student my parents took in during the school year, he's even been passed to other travelerswhile he's abroad to be sent home to us in one piece. His latest adventures ended up with the Alma College Choir in Scotland (where he ran amuck with some ghosties in Edinbugh's underground and climbed some trees around Clava Cairns in order to get a better veiw) , he visited the cripts in the Washington National Catherdral, and is currently looking forward to going to Poland with the Choir (who has adopted him for trips since my parents stopped taking in exchange students) . There need to be more trouble making stuffed animals like Honey Bear, this flat Stanley fellow seems to be doing a good job of it. I hope they get the chance to meet up one day. |
| W007! | Jan 27th. at 5:23:49 pm EST |
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by Lady Arianrhod (Tuscaloosa, AL) - wc_xemail My sister made her own Flat Stanely as a project for school some years ago, and he travelled quite far, and only suffered some BBQ sauce stains from a tailgating party and some rum from New Orleans. Yes, he got circulated mostly through the friends of my parents....hippies. But Stanely got to party at the Jazz and Heritage Festival...lucky drawing! |
| Long Live Stanley! | Jan 27th. at 4:02:32 pm EST |
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by Erin Murphy (Dallas, Texas) - wc_xemail My now 12 year old daughter did this project in first grade and LOVED it...her father took him on his business trips so Stanley was very well traveled. It is so great to see this project still going strong as it really gets the kids involved in the process of seeing the world through anothers eyes when Stanley makes his rounds. |
| What A Great Project | Jan 27th. at 3:08:24 pm EST |
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by Rayne Etaine (Tampa Fl) - wc_xemail I love anything related to education and I especially love when kids get excited about projects. I am an education major and this makes me wish I were going to teach elementary instead of high school. |
| How Cool.. | Jan 27th. at 2:51:04 pm EST |
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by nomad (around) - wc_xemail wow, Flat Stanley was one of my absolute favourites when I was little, we had this scholastic book club at school once a week or a month, I forget and we'd order our little books from a catalogue, which was pretty cool in itself when you're four or five! Just seeing the cover brings back so many memories of childhood adventures, both real and imagined and lessons of perserverence that stories like this teach kids. YAY! |
| I Remember Stanley! | Jan 27th. at 2:49:12 pm EST |
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by Irenthel (New Jersey, USA) - wc_xemail It was in second grade when we read the book and spent the day with Stanley. Of course, everybody wanted to hold him and I remember going out onto the back playground (where all the bees were, darn it) where we all swarmed over to the girl who had brought him. Oh, if everybody could be so blissfully aware of the soaring, wondrous, and beautiful music that our diversity makes. Hehe, there should be National Stanley Day, maybe, where everybody is just as kind and sweet (no matter what) . I know it's wishful thinking, but you never know. Maybe people will stop being hateful idiots. Namárië and Blessed Be, Irrie |
| I've Met Stanley! | Jan 27th. at 12:31:42 pm EST |
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by Tam (Fort Collins, CO) - wc_xemail Flat Stanley visited me by way of a co-workers nephew! He even helped me celebrate my graduation from college! What a fun way to get kids excited about a project! |
| Stanly Visited Me! | Jan 27th. at 12:02:36 pm EST |
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by William Anderson (Alsfeld, Germany) - wc_xemail My nephew sent me a Stanly. His was the only one in his class to go overseas. Its a great way for the kids to learn about all kinds of places. William He who sacrifices freedom for security is damned to loose both. Benjamin Franklin |
| Wonderful! | Jan 27th. at 11:42:33 am EST |
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by Feribear (Western, MA) - wc_xemail I remember reading Flat Stanley when I was a child, some 25 odd years ago. It was always a favorite. I think I still have a copy in the basement of my parent's house. I am tickled to no end to know that not only is he still around, but he's teaching new lessons in his old age Long Live Stanley! |
| Our Flat Stanley | Jan 27th. at 11:27:28 am EST |
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by blis (by the lake) - wc_xemail my son made a flat stanley as a class project and sent it to his cousin in southern california..... she sent back photographs of stanley at disney land.... they stuck stanley on a pole and took him to a concert.....he went to the beach.... a few parties.....the shopping mall......a basket ball game.... she also wrote a little narritive to go with each photograph in stanley's voice telling how much he liked each event and what he saw there. the kids in his class loved it!! |
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