Flat Stanley is a SUCH a fun story to share with your class. One night while Stanley is sleeping a bulletin board falls on him and makes him half an inch thick! Stanley is able to be folded up and flown and mailed around the world and go on an amazing adventure that leads to him being a hero. This i...
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis was an okay read.I think I was just too much in a rational mindset to enjoy this book. I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board while sleeping in the original book series. I can even pretend that y...
Flat Stanley is about a boy who is flattened by a bulletin board and goes on adventures while flat. At the end, he is returned to his normal self by his brother at the end. This book lends itself to fun classroom projects. There is the Flat Stanley Project that would be fun to incorporate into a c...
Flat Stanley, written by Jeff Brown, is about a little boy who wakes up one morning to find that he has been flattened by his board that fell on him over night. Stanley starts to discover that he can do some pretty amazing things that other children can't. He even get's to mail himself across the co...
While I have seen Flat Stanley used in guided reading for second grade, I personally would use this book for a fourth-grade project like my fourth-grade teacher did. To begin with, my teacher gave all of use three printouts of Stanley at the end of our third-grade year. This was because we would nee...
Flat Stanley is such a fun character to add to any classroom. I would use this book and others in the series in 2nd grade or 3rd. Many classes have made their own Stanley's and mailed them to friends or family in far off places. When the Stanley's return, it is a great individual project to write...
Episodic and ultimately forgettable little children's confection. Because I live under a rock, I was not aware this was as old as it is - originally published in 1964! - so I found the early 60s-era drawing style and weird historical tics in the writing affected. For example, the parents are referre...
mp3 quickie - workaday"I see you've bought a roll of wallpaper.""No, it's my son, Stanley."
Flat Stanley isn't really grabbing me. Although it is fun to read about a trip to Mount Rushmore the day after we watched Nation Treasure 2: Book of Secrets again.
Read this over and over as a child I remember.
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