The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley

Stanley Lambchop is your normal, every day, run-of-the-mill kid. He’s nothing out of the ordinary. But one night while he’s sleeping, the bulletin board on the wall above his bed comes loose and falls – right on top of Stanley!  And the next morning, Stanley Lambchop wakes up flat! Not just flat…Really flat. At first it’s not so bad. He can slide under locked doors. His friends fly him like a kite. And Stanley’s the best in his class at Hide-and-Seek.   But someone has to do something. And that someone is Stanley! If he has to be flat, at least he is going to make the best of it. Stanley is going to put himself in a big envelope and travel the world – as a human letter!  And the adventure begins!

 In a whirlwind musical travelogue, Stanley – the ultimate pen pal – scours the globe for a solution to his unusual problem. He’s stamped, posted and cancelled from South Africa to Mexico, from Russia to England to China, and beyond. And wherever Stanley Lambchop goes, he meets new friends, learns about different cultures through song and dance, and closes in on his goal of being a three-dimensional boy once more.

Grade: pre k – grade 5, ages 5 and up

Curriculum connections: Geography, Social Studies, English, Visual Arts, Character Education and Multicultural Studies

The Flat Stanley Phenomenon

THE BOOKS

            

 THE AUTHOR

Jeff Brown

 Jeff Brown was born in New York City. In addition to having a successful career as a children's book author, he was a story editor and assistant film producer in Hollywood. He was also a short-story writer and editor for such popular magazines as The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Saturday Evening Post. His books about the Lambchop family include Stanley and the Magic Lamp, Stanley's Christmas Adventure, and the Flat Stanley picture book.

THE ILLUSTRATOR

Scott Nash

 Scott Nash is an enormously talented and successful artist whose work for young people includes Besty Who Cried Wolf by Gail Carson Levine and all six Stanley Lambchop chapter books by Jeff Brown.

 
 

The Study Guide

Preview the Study Guide for Flat Stanley here.

PHOTO ALBUM

Flat Stanley on some of his ‘more famous’ visits: