I am an instructional coach at Walnut Creek Elementary School in Austin, Texas. As a part of our reading book club with third grade students, we are reading a book called Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. This book is about a young boy named Stanley who is accidentally flattened when a bulletin board falls on him in his sleep. Stanley is able to have many adventures because he is flat such as sliding under doors, making himself a kite, catching thieves in an art museum, and mailing himself to California to visit his best friend.

We are mailing Flat Stanley to you to learn more about cities all over the world. Stabley stays with his “host family” for a short visit. He then returns to Walnut Creek to help us learn about the city he visited and the adventures he had. We learn about the exciting things he saw, the weather during his visit, and approximately how far he traveled so that we can calculate the number of his total number of miles. Of course, Flat Stanley loves to be in pictures, be dressed in clothes appropriate to the climate, and pick up post cards to show where he has been.

I hope that you enjoy reading about Flat Stanley's Adventures around the World!

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