My seven year old son has a class assignment where he has to send a picture of “Flat Stanley”, a fictional boy who has been run over by a steamroller(?), to somewhere else in the world. It would require you to send him back, filled in and with questions answered about your spot in the world.
Anyone willing to give this a shot? We only need one volunteer, I guess ideally it would come back from a child of similar age, although that’s not an absolute restriction from what I’ve skimmed on the assignment. He would need to get it back before December 1st.
Yes, I am also confused. Apparently in the book “Flat Stanley” asks his parents to mail him to interesting places. Since TMINC has read it, maybe she can fill us in.
Well, I only read the first one, where he got flattened (I can’t remember the steamroller bit, though, I thought a bulletin board fell on him or something). It came in useful - his mother dropped a ring in through a grating, so she tied Stanley to a string and lowered him down to get it. He posed as a picture in a museum, dressed as Little Bo Peep to catch some art thieves. I think one of his friends had recently moved, and it was too expensive for him to go visit, so he asked his mother to mail him instead. She even poured a little milk into the envelope, folded Stanley up nice and neat, and mailed him off to his friend.
He was later reinflated with a bicycle pump. I do believe there were additional books in the series though, but I think they came out later. I never read them, at any rate.
Anyhow, I fail to see any way in which the story or the project is un-PC, by any of the common meanings of the phrase…
Oh and… if a kid isn’t a requirement, I would be glad to participate. However, if you need to mail it off to another child, I’m no help in that regard.
I asked Mrs Shibb a little while ago why he didn’t just send it to one of his cousins in Thailand. He wants it to go to Australia because “that’s the farthest away”. I have no idea if that’s technically correct.
Note, I think Africa should be as cool as Australia to a kid. It was just as exotic a concept when I was little. Maybe he prefers Australia since our local zoo has a decent Australian fauna exhibit. Anyway, it’s a preference more than anything else.
I’ll quite happily do it, but I have no small people in my household. So I will place myself on the reserve list in case some Ozdopers with offspring volunteer.
If you’re in Australia, send me an email and I’ll get the stuff in the mail to you. This is his homework so I do need you to complete the assignment in a fairly timely manner. How old is your brother?
