[bksvol-discuss] Re: Flat Stanley

Didn't know there were books about him.

I just knew him from his adventures around the country and the world.


Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of 
their act as violence;
 rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.
 The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. 
-Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944) 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jamie Yates 
  To: Bookshare Volunteers 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:12 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Flat Stanley


  A girl I work with got Flat Stanley in the mail from her niece, and she had a 
lot of fun dressing him up and taking pictures of him in different places. A 
lot of other people I work with had never heard of Flat Stanley and I was 
really surprised! But I was more surprised to see that Bookshare has NONE of 
the Flat Stanley books at all in the collection.

  So I have just submitted Flat Stanley, and it is ready for proofreading.

  Stanley Lambchop is just a normal, healthy boy. True, there was that business 
about the bulletin board falling on him. But boys will have accidents, and 
Stanley is just like any other boy.

  Even if he is only half an inch thick.

  A handicap? Don't be silly!

  Convenient? Most certainly. Why, Stanley's father never worries about losing 
him in crowds; he just rolls Stanley up and carries him under his arm. And 
economical! How about the time his parents mailed him to California to spend 
his holiday there?

  Does he have fun? Well, which is more fun -- flying a kite or being one?

  What's that you say? Can a flat boy make a significant contribution to 
society? Now look--that's the climax. You'd better read the book.

  It's uplifting.

  And side-splitting. So are the pictures.




  -- 
  Jamie in Michigan
  Currently Reading: Cupcake by Rachel Cohn
  www.michrxtech.com/books.html

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