Flat Stanley (Flat Stanley)

Description

The magical and brilliantly funny adventures of everyone's favourite flat boy - Flat Stanley. With wonderful new illustrations by the award-winning author/illustrator and star of Lockdown viral sensation #DrawwithRob, Rob Biddulph . Stanley Lambchop was just an ordinary boy - until a noticeboard fell on him. Now he's flat as a pancake! Being flat is fantastic - he can be rolled up, sent in the post and even fly like a kite. But it's not all fun and games ... there are thieves in town. Can the flattest boy in the world be its biggest hero? Jeff Brown's world-famous character Flat Stanley continues to charm half a century after he first found his way into print. Jeff Brown was a story editor and assistant film producer in Hollywood. He worked on the at The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post, and his stories appeared in these magazines and many others. Jeff created the classic character Flat Stanley, whose adventures have been beloved by children around the world for more than 50 years. He died in Manhattan in 2003. Rob Biddulph is a bestselling and award-winning children's book author and illustrator. He is the start of the viral Lockdown sensation #DrawwithRob. He won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Blown Away and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway medal for GRRRRR! His other books include Odd Dog Out (Aug 2016) and Sunk! (March 2017).

Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He wrote six books about the Lambchop family's madcap adventures.Josh Greenhut is a talented writer who has worked on several projects for HarperCollins, including the abridgement of A CHRISTMAS CAROL illustrated by Brett Helquist and the innovative and successful marketing campaign for the Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in Toronto, Ontario with his wife and two children.

'This inventive story is full of wit and humour, and is sure to intrigue young readers. Jeff Brown's ingenious tale has become a well-established favourite, both in the classroom and at home' - Booktrust