Madalyn Persons-Cutting, a first-grader at Dr. They can pack him up with their teddy bear and take him to the Grand Canyon, or send him along with Aunt Edna and Uncle Harry when they go abroad. "They have no idea that children from California look just like they do."įlat Stanley fans are not required to send the little guy to a participating class. It helps the children learn that there are kids like them all over the world. Hess said their Flat Stanley has visited California, South Carolina, and Indiana. "They get all excited when an envelope arrives." One of those classes is Kathryn Hess's, a special-needs teacher who began using Stanley at the Lighthouse School in North Chelmsford this year. More that 6,000 classes in 47 countries are participating in the program. (A school in France had 120 Flat Stanleys visiting at one time and asked to be removed from the list.) Interested educators can log onto the website, where they will find a list of participating teachers to determine whether one is amenable to a visit.
There is no charge for the service, other than the postage to mail Stanley on his way. Hubert figured if Stanley could travel to California in an envelope, there were many other journeys he could take. Stanley Lambchop soon finds that being flat has its advantages, and he embarks on a series of adventures, including traveling in an envelope to visit friends in California. First published in 1964, "Flat Stanley" is a story about a boy who wakes up one morning to discover that he has been flattened by a bulletin board that hung above his bed. "It's a way of learning geography, but he can also be used to teach math and social studies as well as other subjects," said Hubert.įlat Stanley is a storybook character created by the late Jeff Brown, an editor and writer. Since the Internet site went online in 1995, the peripatetic Stanley has inspired thousands of grade-schoolers to pick up crayons and create their own version to send on vicarious adventures through the mail.
"He has taken me to places I never imagined," Dale Hubert, creator of the Flat Stanley Project, said recently.
He has been to all seven continents and met world leaders like President Clinton. He has gone dog sledding in Antarctica, sat behind the controls of a U-2 spy plane in Texas, visited Mount Everest, and marveled at the Taj Mahal. Flat Stanley may be a paper doll, but he's no couch potato.
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