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Riding the Slides
Beloved character Flat Stanley is back with a whole new set of friends in this brand-new STEM-focused chapter book series. In this second book, Stanley and his friends learn all about the scientific method, gravity, and friction through a heated contest on the playground!
Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, each day brings new adventures!
According to Stanley’s second grade teacher, Ms. Root, everyone in classroom 2E is a scientist. That’s good news for Stanley because he has a problem in need of solving! Both his classmate, Josie, and his little brother, Arthur, think he’s been using his flatness to cheat during playground games. But Stanley can’t help being flat!
It’s time to test how flatness affects Stanley on the playground. Will science be on his side?
Featuring adorable black & white illustrations, an accessible approach to STEM topics, and a fun experiment in the backmatter for readers to try themselves. Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s classroom adventures!
Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, each day brings new adventures!
According to Stanley’s second grade teacher, Ms. Root, everyone in classroom 2E is a scientist. That’s good news for Stanley because he has a problem in need of solving! Both his classmate, Josie, and his little brother, Arthur, think he’s been using his flatness to cheat during playground games. But Stanley can’t help being flat!
It’s time to test how flatness affects Stanley on the playground. Will science be on his side?
Featuring adorable black & white illustrations, an accessible approach to STEM topics, and a fun experiment in the backmatter for readers to try themselves. Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s classroom adventures!
125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 12, 2023
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Jeff Brown
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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. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places.
Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. A graduate of the Professional Children's School, he provided a child's voice in a radio drama and appeared onstage.
In Hollywood he worked for the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and was a story consultant at Paramount. Preferring to write himself, he sold fiction and articles to national magazines while working at The New Yorker, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and finally at Warner Books, where he was a senior editor until 1980. The idea for Stanley came to him one night at bedtime when his sons J. C. and Tony were young and stalling for time. One asked what would happen if the big bulletin board on the wall were to fall on J. C., and Mr. Brown said he would most likely wake up flat. That led to speculation about what such a life might be like. After writing "Flat Stanley, " Mr. Brown went on to "Stanley and the Magic Lamp," "Stanley in Space," "Stanley's Christmas Adventure," "Invisible Stanley" and finally "Stanley, Flat Again!"
The Flat Stanley Project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada. It is meant to facilitate letter-writing by schoolchildren to each other as they document where Flat Stanley has gone with them. The Project provides an opportunity for students to make connections with students of other member schools who've signed up with the project. Students begin by reading the book and becoming acquainted with the story. Then they make paper "Flat Stanleys" (or pictures of the Stanley Lambchop character) and keep a journal for a few days, documenting the places and activities in which Flat Stanley is involved. The Flat Stanley and the journal are mailed to other people who are asked to treat the figure as a visiting guest and add to his journal, then return them both after a period of time. In 2005, more than 6,500 classes from 48 countries took part in the Flat Stanley Project.
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. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places.
Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. A graduate of the Professional Children's School, he provided a child's voice in a radio drama and appeared onstage.
In Hollywood he worked for the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and was a story consultant at Paramount. Preferring to write himself, he sold fiction and articles to national magazines while working at The New Yorker, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and finally at Warner Books, where he was a senior editor until 1980. The idea for Stanley came to him one night at bedtime when his sons J. C. and Tony were young and stalling for time. One asked what would happen if the big bulletin board on the wall were to fall on J. C., and Mr. Brown said he would most likely wake up flat. That led to speculation about what such a life might be like. After writing "Flat Stanley, " Mr. Brown went on to "Stanley and the Magic Lamp," "Stanley in Space," "Stanley's Christmas Adventure," "Invisible Stanley" and finally "Stanley, Flat Again!"
The Flat Stanley Project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada. It is meant to facilitate letter-writing by schoolchildren to each other as they document where Flat Stanley has gone with them. The Project provides an opportunity for students to make connections with students of other member schools who've signed up with the project. Students begin by reading the book and becoming acquainted with the story. Then they make paper "Flat Stanleys" (or pictures of the Stanley Lambchop character) and keep a journal for a few days, documenting the places and activities in which Flat Stanley is involved. The Flat Stanley and the journal are mailed to other people who are asked to treat the figure as a visiting guest and add to his journal, then return them both after a period of time. In 2005, more than 6,500 classes from 48 countries took part in the Flat Stanley Project.
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February 27, 2024
Hello today I'm going to talk about flat Stanley book number two, and and it is flat Stanley adventures in classroom 2E riding the slides. The thing I like about the book is Stanley became a scientist and tried to find out what how flatness will affect him on the slide. he became a scientist and did the scientific method. A scientific method is has a question then comes the hypothesis make your smart guess then you have the materials, then do your procedure then check the results which is data then you have the conclusion which will tell you if your hypothesis was correct the thing about this book was Stanley was trying to figure out if flatness affected him on the slide and see how flat objects are behaved on the slide or how people behaved on the slide.
September 23, 2024
My kids checked this book out from the local library, and we read it together this week. A surprisingly good find-- it walks kids through the scientific method. But after reading the chapter that covers hypotheses, experiments, and conclusions at a VERY basic level, the my kids still had a hard time understanding what it was about. I think the narrative components themselves did make sense-- when they start doing experiments to test the effect of flatness on objects going down a slide. The theory of science doesn't fully make sense to beginners, because it's lots of fancy words for stuff that seems intuitive and obvious. It's just asking questions in a systematic way.
It was a really great introduction. There was one kid in the book who wanted to use the scientific method to ask questions about the solar system. This is admittedly difficult, and I failed to come up with a legitimate scientific question when I was in third grade. I made a mobile model of the planets with balls and wire, which isn't exactly answering a question. I thought science was looking stuff up in books and reading, and didn't understand how kids could do science. There was one girl in our class who asked a question about which diapers are the best at soaking up water, and she won our little science contest. Perhaps I could have come up with a better question if I had read Flat Stanley.
Of course, I was most interested in the biology of a flat person, which doesn't seem like it fits well in a book about science. But here's where the suspension of belief has to come in in a Flat Stanley book. The book states that Flat Stanley weighs as much as an empty pizza box!
The book also mixes in a well done theme on being different e.g. Stanley's classmates believe that Stanley's flatness give him an unfair advantage, but he can't help it; it's part of who he is. It was an interesting thing to think about, what might something like this be in real life. It got me thinking, and a great discussion point for kids too.
It was a really great introduction. There was one kid in the book who wanted to use the scientific method to ask questions about the solar system. This is admittedly difficult, and I failed to come up with a legitimate scientific question when I was in third grade. I made a mobile model of the planets with balls and wire, which isn't exactly answering a question. I thought science was looking stuff up in books and reading, and didn't understand how kids could do science. There was one girl in our class who asked a question about which diapers are the best at soaking up water, and she won our little science contest. Perhaps I could have come up with a better question if I had read Flat Stanley.
Of course, I was most interested in the biology of a flat person, which doesn't seem like it fits well in a book about science. But here's where the suspension of belief has to come in in a Flat Stanley book. The book states that Flat Stanley weighs as much as an empty pizza box!
The book also mixes in a well done theme on being different e.g. Stanley's classmates believe that Stanley's flatness give him an unfair advantage, but he can't help it; it's part of who he is. It was an interesting thing to think about, what might something like this be in real life. It got me thinking, and a great discussion point for kids too.
February 24, 2024
When Stanley is accused of cheated while playing on the school yard during recess, his teacher Ms. Root challenges the class to use the scientific method to help prove that Stanley's being flat isn't an advantage in everything that he does.
January 21, 2024
More scientific than I expected
May 24, 2024
Cute revival of the Flat Stanley series for 1st and 2nd graders... and you get a surprise lesson on the scientific method too as Stanley discovers his flatness.
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