![]() ![]() Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964. This is the very first Flat Stanley adventure, updated with crisp new art. He even gets to help catch two dangerous art thieves. Stanley gets rolled up, mailed, and flown like a kite. A bulletin board fell on Stanley during the night, and now he is only half an inch thick! Amazing things begin happening to him. When Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning, his brother, Arthur, is yelling.
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