![]() ![]() In the end, Stanley is even able to help solve a mystery by posing as artwork in a museum. For example, Stanley, flat as a pancake, can be flown in the air like a kite, slid underneath locked doors, or easily slipped between thin bars on a drainage grate to retrieve lost valuables. ![]() In addition, they soon find that there are considerable advantages to being flat instead of round and curvy like the rest of us. ![]() As the plot unfolds, readers discover that Stanley, thank goodness, is unhurt. Stanley, the main character, is flattened one night when a bulletin board falls on top of him while he is sleeping. The fairly recent reprinting with new illustrations, and its availability in a popular book club edition, has revitalized the old story for a whole new group of children. Better yet, send him a supportive e-mail along with an interesting Flat Stanley photo for the collection.A familiar story of a generation ago, Flat Stanley (Brown, 1992/1964), has resurfaced. If you want to scope the situation out further or just peruse the hundreds of photos, visit Hubert’s before it morphs into yet another merchandise-flogging site. To be fair, this legal mess isn't entirely one-sided Hubert himself filed for a trademark on Flat Stanley in 2006, which further complicates matters, but it seems to have been a defensive move done on the advise of a lawyer. This doesn’t sit right with me and I shudder to think of what Hollywood, corporate branding and a marketing blitz could do to a grass-roots, classroom-friendly effort like the Flat Stanley Project. And somehow I doubt that literacy, travel and pen-pal activity will be the focus of any commercial effort. They’re willing to let the Flat Stanley Project continue on a different site, but this entity would be profiting from all of the traffic and recognition that Hubert has built up, leaving him out in the cold. Given the expanding popularity of Flat Stanley (a musical was produced in 2007 and Universal has apparently bought movie rights to the character), the Brown estate wants that domain -which Hubert owns. ![]()
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