Flat Stanley was just on Fox News. Seems he has his own web site there where you can download him and take him on your next adventure.

Flat Stanley is a book by Jeff Brown, written at least 30 years ago. If you haven't read it, check it out. There are now a few other Adventures of Flat Stanley books available by Scholastic.

My husband read the book when he was in elementary school so he was very amused when he received a Flat Stanley from his niece. Stanley attended our wedding and then joined us on our honeymoon in Hawaii. Right after we returned, my husband had to go to Amsterdam on business so Stanley joined him. His neice said her Flat Stanley was the most traveled of any in her class.

Flat Stanley just spent a week in Iraq with my husband's battalion. He sat in one of Saddam's thrones, and ate chow with the guys in the mess hall. My friend's daughter sent him over. We had a scare for two weeks while he was MIA. He took one month to get to Iraq, and we feared the worst. He should be arriving back in the States any day now hopefully.

I'm expecting Flat Stanley any day now too. Hopefully he will get here in time to go to Yosemite with us!

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Flat Stanley recently went skiing in Utah with us! Gosh the whole thing is so cute. Kids love it and I think adults secretly love it too. My friend cariied Flat everywhere we went. So, we have pictures of Flat in the snow, on the slopes ...everyhwere! Next Flat trip is too India!

At my kids' school, Flat Stanley is a 1st grade project to learn geography. The teachers put a large map on the wall to track where the classes' FSs go.

My brother in law took my older son's FS on BIL's honeymoon to Hawaii. We have pics of FS lounging on pool float, riding in a helicopter, visiting Haleakalea (sp?), drinking colorful drinks with paper umbrellas, etc. I did warn BIL that FS didn't need to witness ALL of the honeymoon activities.

Younger son's FS started out with BIL and his family in Chattanooga but FS got bored with seeing BIL go to work and having the toddler nephew try to chew him. So, my husband rescued FS and took him on his business trips to Toronto, Miami, Puerto Rico, and Alabama.

Both FS' in our house have scrapbooks of photos, mementos and descriptions of their travels.

just topping to see if Flat Stanley has been to anyplace new & exciting.

Oh yes, he went to Europe with us, and we had fun taking his photo by the Eiffel Tower and the Colloseum, etc. Our grandson got an A on his "trip report!"

This post is too funny! I just returned last night from LA, where Flat Stanley accompanied me. I am the "east coast cousin" and was going to visit the "west coast cousins" - I bought the Flat Stanley book for their 5 yr old; in the back of the book you cut out "Flat" and take him w/ you. (Flat was squished by a blackboard, and all attempts to pump him up with air failed) - there are other books where flat goes sailing, etc. - I took photos of Flat at the airport, we stopped in NYC to see my daughter, photos in the city with her, and then photos of him strapped in his airline seat with headphones on, and of course, one of him with the pilot ! We read the book together when I arrived, - it was a great ice breaker, since I hadn't seen him for over a year. We took a few photos of him in LA with us,, and they all will go in an album. I am mailing him a small map for his bedroom wall, so he can mark where Flat goes, and he will send him to me next month so I can take him to europe with me in December.
It's a fun way for kids to learn geography, encourage an interest in traveling, and a fun way for me to keep in touch with my cousins little boy from a distance, as we mail Flat back and forth and he can ask others to take Flat along too. This usually works since Flat travels well, doesn't require a separate room and requires no nourishment. I hope we have years of mailing him back and forth and around the world. When I asked the pilot if he would mind posing with FLat, he asked me if he was a small one or a large one, apparently he once had a child with a life size cut out of Flat that the kid had made by tracing himself on large paper. I prefer the mini Flat, because of logistics. I have heard of kids doing it as a school project, but I thought it would be a great special project for me and my special west coast cousin. I believe Flat can be seen this evening trick or treating in Pasadena.

In July he was riding a buffalo in Teddy Roosevelt NP north section in ND.

Flat just returned from a vaca in Switzerland...he loved the mountains, appeared sledding, at famous sites, popping out of pockets, posing with conductors and flight attendants....and yes...in bars....well, it was a family trip but everyone is over 21 and not all those photos will end up in my nephews album !

He arrived from Texas last month, and so far, has enjoyed skiing, riding a quad(atv) with a crazy teenager, seeing smoke from an active volcano nearby, cheered on the Seahawks with his host family, gone ice fishing, had pizza at the local fire station, participated in the Dare program with my younger son, and is nearly packed for a long trip to Shanghai to visit extended family. He hopes to see the Great Wall while there!
When he returns to Alaska, he'll see the Arctic Winter Games being held here, the Iditarod, and go to Arizona with is cousins to recover from frostbite!

Two years ago I went on a tour of the Tour de France for two weeks. We rode along the route before the pros then scooted to the side of the road to watch them scream by before jumping back on our own bikes.

One of the more colorful fellows on the tour brought a FLAT CAT (life sized picture of his own tabby pasted to a paint stir stick)and that cat was photographed everywhere we went in France. Quite funny.

My niece had a flat Stanley, but it never got to me I feel cheated. I'm going to Europe in March, how much fun it would be to have a Stanley in tow

My kids both had a Flat Stanley project in 3rd grade. They made a flat version of themselves and mailed it to a cooperating relative (one in Denver, and one in Kansas City), who then took the flat person on a tour of the city, etc. Great project to learn geography, social studies, etc for the class.