I learned of Flat Stanley through the King of the Hill episode. It was great. Peggy tried to use it as a teaching opportunity to show the kids how to avoid dangerous things like wandering into a pork plant. Great stuff.You can imagine how delighted I was to find out that he was real! And probably owing at least in part to Peggy and other like minded antics, both well and ill meaning, Flat Stanley comes with rules... Oh bother!
Our Flat Stanley was actually Flat Cooper. My nephew Cooper (pictured with his auntie!) sent him from Pennsylvania as part of a class project, just like on King of the Hill. So Flat Cooper had a London adventure. When I asked one of my coworkers to help me by letting me photograph Flat Cooper at the wheel of her car (being right handed drive), I learned that she had read the book. Book? Yes, book. Apparently there was a book called... you guessed it... Flat Stanley. I didn't know there was a book! It was written in the 60s. In the book, a bulletin board lands on Stanley, of course flattening him. He slips under doors and visits friends by the mail.So Flat Cooper had his London adventure. He has his own website: flatcooper.blogspot.com
Check out Flat Cooper's pictures. Some are with us. It was great fun!
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