Meet Stanley Lambchop.
He's an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem.
He's four feet tall, about a foot wide . . . oh, and half an inch thick.
At first being flat is fine.
It's fun going in and out of rooms simply by sliding under the door.
And it's exciting being mailed to your friends in California for a visit.
But it's not always easy being different, and soon Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else.
Will he ever be normal again?
After a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, he finds that being flat has its advantages.
Chapter One
The Big Bulletin Board
Breakfast was ready.
"I will go wake the boys," Mrs. Lambchop said to her husband, George Lambchop. Just then their younger son, Arthur, called from the bedroom he shared with his brother, Stanley.
"Hey! Come and look! Hey!"
Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop were both very much in favor of politeness and careful speech. "Hay is for horses, Arthur, not people," Mr. Lambchop said as they entered the bedroom. "Try to remember that."
"Excuse me," Arthur said. "But look!"
He pointed to Stanley's bed. Across it lay the enormous bulletin board that Mr. Lambchop had given the boys a Christmas ago so that they could pin up pictures and messages and maps. It had fallen, during the night, on top of Stanley.
But Stanley was not hurt. In fact, he would still have been sleeping if he had not been woken by his brother's shout.
"What's going on here?" he called out cheerfully from beneath the enormous board.
Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop hurried to lift it from the bed.
"Heavens!" said Mrs. Lambchop.
"Gosh!" said Arthur. "Stanley's flat!"
"As a pancake," said Mr. Lambchop. "Darndest thing I've ever seen."
"Let's all have breakfast," Mrs. Lambchop said. "Then Stanley and I will go see Dr. Dan and hear what he has to say."
In his office, Dr. Dan examined Stanley all over.
"How do you feel?" he asked. "Does it hurt very much?"
"I felt sort of tickly for a while after I got up," Stanley Lambchop said, "but I feel fine now."
"Well, that's mostly how it is with these cases," said Dr.Dan.
"We'll just have to keep an eye on this young fellow," he said when he had finished the examination. "Sometimes we doctors, despite all our years of training and experience, can only marvel at how little we really know."
Mrs. Lambchop said she thought Stanley's clothes would have to be altered by the tailor now, so Dr. Dan told his nurse to take Stanley's measurements.
Mrs. Lambchop wrote them down.
Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and half an inch thick.
Flat Stanley 40th Anniversary Edition. Copyright © by Jeff Brown. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.Anonymous
Posted February 20, 2006
This is one of the few books I remember reading as a child in school. I have to say that it is my favorite. I have a copy for my children when they get old enough to start reading. I recommend it for any youngster who enjoys imaginative tales. It is well written and illustrated. It also holds the interest of a young child.
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Posted April 15, 2004
My grandson, Douglas, sent Flat Stanley by Priority Mail to me in Anchorage, Alaska. I made him a comfortable bed in my back pack. During the day I carry him around in the rolling backpack. We've been all over the city... walking and riding the bus. We have gathered a lot of information and taken many pictures for him to take back with him to Glendale, Arizona. When he gets home he will help Douglas use that information to give a presentation to his second grade class.
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Posted May 18, 2004
My niece sent me Flat Alex and I had a great week taking her everywhere!! I loved the book!
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Posted December 17, 2003
I just have to say that I love Flat Stanley! I am in my mid 30's and remember it as being one of my most favorite books as a child. As far as the person that rated it a zero....everyone is entitled their opinion, but any book that encourages a child to read is Aces to me. I live in Pennsylvania and have been fortunate enough to travel. I must say, oddly enough, I have had the 'pleasure' [sarcasm sarcasm] of traveling to Middle Granville. Of the people I have met in Middle Granville and Granville, I would expect a zero rating for Flat Stanley from an adult. What a sad little community. I feel sorry for their children.
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Posted May 9, 2003
This book is great. I loved it I wish I could fold myself up to visit anyone. It's cool how he saves the art museum.
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Posted September 21, 2002
all kids need to read I give it a capital O for Outstanding this is a must read book
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Posted January 16, 2002
After 9/11, we do not need to encourage our 7 year old children to send 'Flat Stanley' all over the country in envelopes. This is a terrible story and our children should be learning more significant skills. If we need to send a letter at 34 cents a piece maybe it should be to a pen-pal at another school or our servicemen and/or women abroad. I feel this is more acceptable and more productive. My child doesn't need to be reading about someone being crushed and mailed. Let's teach our children something worth while! Not truly yours, Cindy Whittier Middle Granville, NY
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Posted June 16, 2001
This is a book I grew up with and now so are my two children. When reading it we come up with our own ideas of what might happen if we were as flat as stanley. It brings big smiles and lots of laughs every time we read it. I hope your family will give it a try.
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Posted May 10, 2000
I loved Flat Stanley! And poor Arthur, too! Great life lessons, but still funny. I even tried to myself to mail myself to NY for a vacation after I read the book! Twenty years later, my sister and I still call each other 'Arthur' and 'Stanley' -- if only a bicycle pump could solve all of our problems!!
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Overview
Meet Stanley Lambchop.
He's an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem.
He's four feet tall, about a foot wide . . . oh, and half an inch thick.
At first being flat is fine.
It's fun going in and out of rooms simply by sliding under ...