# Flat Stanley

**Author:** Jeff Brown
**Lexile:** 540L
**Grade range:** Grades 1–3
**Age range:** 6–9
**First published:** 1964
**Page count:** 96
**Genre:** Early Chapter Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780064421751`
**ISBN-10:** `0064421759`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/flat-stanley
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Stanley Lambchop is flattened by a falling bulletin board overnight and turns his new shape into adventures — traveling to California in an envelope, helping catch art thieves, and flying like a kite. Brown's series spawned a classroom mail-exchange project used in thousands of US elementary schools.

## Themes

- problem solving
- creativity
- family
- adventure

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grade 2 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grade 3 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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