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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Flat Stanley is a good example of fantasy because the boy Stanley is squished by a bulletin board and becomes half an inch thick, which could not really happen in real life. The plot goes through the normal beginning, conflict and ending sequence. The beginning introduces Stanley and his family and how he got made "flat". Then the conflict is dealing with the ups and downs of being flat. Some ups are he can fit under doors and be mailed to visit his cousins, and the down side is he got stuck in a tree and his classmates sometimes make fun of him. The conclusion comes when Stanley accepts that being flat is different, but it is okay to be different, and again when Stanley's brother blows him up with a ball pump back to the normal Stanley. The artwork in this book was done with pen and ink. madelinelbaker | Feb 24, 2009 |   Flat Stanley is a great fantasy that is great for young children listening to it read aloud and for older children reading it for themselves. In the story Stanley is flattened and has several adventures before his younger brother is able to help him get back to normal. I read this book at least once a day for several months to my then four-year-old daughter; she was very intrigued with the absurdity of being flattened and being able to do extraordinary things such as being mailed in an envelope. Check out the Flat Stanley project at www.flatstanley.com (  )drdonovan | Jan 24, 2009 | I picked this one up because I'd heard about the Flat Stanley Project from teacher friends of mine and wanted to read the original. It's not bad. Very clever and cute, in an old-fashioned sort of way, and the relationship between Stanley and his brother (and Stanley and the other kids, for that matter) is actually handled suprisingly well. I wish I had the original edition, though: this one is very clearly packaged to appeal to modern kids as a "chapter book" in an attempt to caplitalize on the project; but it reads much more like a picture book, and I'd love to see where the page breaks and illustrations were in the original large-format edition. (  )melannen | Dec 12, 2008 | Genre: Fantasy - Chapter Book Media: Pencil Age Appropriateness: Primary This book is about a boy name Stanley who gets flattened one night by a bulletin board. He is now a half inch thick. Many people become jealous of Flat Stanley because he can do a lot of special things. However, Flat Stanley ends up helping a lot of people out by being the size that he is. In the end his brother helps "pump" him up to the right size. This book is a good example of a fantasy because it is not realistic. No one would get smashed flat by a bulletin board and then be able to slip under doors, into grates or be flown. (  )bmiller06 | Nov 23, 2008 | This book is a good example of a fantasy because the reader believes that the boy actually becomes flat by a bulletin board and lives life okay until he is blown up again by an air pump but in reality no one can live like a flat person and not die. Age appropriate: primary. Media: watercolors. ( )sghods05 | Nov 3, 2008 | 0.171 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0060097914, Paperback)Poor Stanley. He's a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. After his parents peel the incriminating bulletin board off of him, Stanley must adjust to life as a pancake. He is a boy who takes this kind of thing in stride, though, and soon he's enjoying the advantages of squashedness. Sliding under closed doors is fun, and it's gratifying to be of use to his mother when she drops her ring through a narrow metal grating. Expensive plane fare to California? No problem. Svelte Stanley folds comfortably into a brown paper envelope. There's even room left over in there for an egg-salad sandwich. But Stanley's true moment of glory comes when a gang of thieves begins stealing paintings from the Famous Museum of Art. The case seems hopeless--until our two-dimensional hero saves the day. Here is one boy who doesn't let his profile-challenged body stop him from living life fully--that is, until his brother finds a way to help him become well rounded again. Jeff Brown's matter-of-fact tone and Tomi Ungerer's witty and engaging drawings tickle the funny bone, making this 1964 classic a perennial favorite. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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