Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley

Front cover of the very first book (1964).
Author	Jeff Brown (1964–2003; 2006)
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Harper & Row (1964–1985) HarperCollins (1990–2003) Scholastic (2006; 2009–present)
Published	1964–2003; 2006; 2009–present

Flat Stanley is an American children's book series written by Jeff Brown (January 1, 1926 – December 3, 2003).

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures is an American children's book series written by different authors such as Sara Pennypacker, etc. The summary is about Stanley traveling the world in some places.

Stanley Lambchop and his younger brother Arthur are given a big bulletin board by their father to display pictures and posters. He hangs it on the wall over Stanley's bed. During the night the board falls from the wall, flattening Stanley in his sleep. He survives and makes the best of his altered state, and soon he is entering locked rooms by sliding under the door, and playing with his younger brother by being used as a kite. One special advantage is that Flat Stanley can now visit his friends in California by being mailed in an envelope. Stanley even helps catch some art museum thieves by posing as a painting on the wall. Eventually, Stanley is tired of being flat and Arthur changes him back to his proper shape with a bicycle pump.

At the time of his death, Brown was working on another Flat Stanley book published by Scholastic in 2006. Further books in the series have since been written by other authors and published by Scholastic.

In addition, a series called Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures is being written by other authors, with ten books (plus two announced for a 2014 release, but still not released) out so far:

The Flat Stanley Project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada. It is meant to facilitate letter-writing by schoolchildren to each other as they document where Flat Stanley has accompanied them. Dale Hubert received the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001 for the Flat Stanley Project.