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does anyone remember a book called Fattiepoofs and Thiniffers?

Flat Stanley has become a massive school project!
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The Flat Stanley Project


The project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a grade three schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada. It is meant to facilitate letter-writing by schoolchildren to each other as they document what Flat Stanley has done with them. Dale Hubert received the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001 for the Flat Stanley Project.

The Flat Stanley 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. The project has many similarities to the Travelling gnome prank except, of course, for the Flat Stanley Project's focus on literacy.


Students may find it fun to plot Flat Stanley's travels on maps and share the contents of the journal. Often, a Flat Stanley returns with a photo or postcard from his visit. Some teachers may prefer to use e-mail.

In 2005, more than 6,000 classes from 47 countries took part in the Flat Stanley Project.

The project was featured in a 2004 episode of the animated TV series King of the Hill. Here, Peggy Hill and Luanne Platter received a Flat Stanley doll in the mail and photographed it in a number of dangerous situations, resulting in the school's Flat Stanley Project being canceled.

According to the Feb. 26th broadcast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Flat Stanley was on board US Airways Flight 1549 which landed safely in the Hudson River. He was carried to safety in the briefcase of his traveling companion.

Flat Stanley goes hi-tech

In 2006, four schools in rural Chesterfield County, South Carolina, implemented a year long technology rich project as part of an E2T2 Grant, called, "Flat Stanley Goes Hi-Tech." The project was sponsored by John Wagnon, Director of Educational Technology. The project involved nine teachers and over 200 students, in third grade, who participated in the project. A middle school film and production crew, chronicled the project under the auspices of Pat Hendrick, Producer, and Brenda Lyles, Director/Editor. The third grade students read the Flat Stanley books, and used digital cameras to create their "Stanleys." They then used computers to write letters, and e-mail students in corresponding schools. A major part of the project involved the use of webcams to promote cultural exchanges between Chesterfield students and those attending schools in Nova Scotia in Canada, and Chile in South America. Several celebrities participated in the project including NASCAR drivers Joe Nemichek and Richard Petty; Vice-President Dick Cheney; Animal Planet's "Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter"; and actress Carly Schroeder (Firewall, Gracie, Lizzie McGuire). Dale Hubert of the Flat Stanley Project also appears in the film.

FLAT STANLEY GOES HI-TECH won the coveted TIPS (Technology Innovation Programs in Schools) Award for South Carolina, in 2006, at South Carolina Ed-Tech at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The broadcast version of the documentary can be viewed here: FLAT STANLEY GOES HI-TECH, recipient of the 2006 South Carolina State TIPS Award.

Variations
Swallowfield Stanley

For variety's sake, not all Flat Stanleys are named Stanley. One of these, Flat Mark, gained considerable media attention in Canada in late 2003 when he was the "guest" of newly-sworn-in Prime Minister Paul Martin and appeared in a photo with his cabinet at the swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall. One called Flat Brandon was scanned and emailed to researcher Cynthia Chiang at the South Pole; Chiang printed out the image of the flat character and photographed it at the South Pole research center, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.[1]

Flat Ashley is a counterpart to Flat Stanley, in use in southeast Asia. Flat Asep and Flat Ujang are variations from Indonesia.

Swallowfield Stanley travels around the world with children and teachers from Swallowfield Lower School, Woburn Sands, UK.

Paper Preeti travels around the world with children and teachers from Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, Uttar Pradesh, India. This variation links impoverished girls in India to families around the world.The Paper Preeti Project
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:D:cool:
 
Does anyone remember a book where a town was plagued by wasps, and the villagers had to work together to build a big fuck off jam sandwich to trap em? It was basically an allegory for socialism I think.
 
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Orang Utan said:
oh yes, and the shrinking of treehorn
and the turbulent term of tyke tyler with it inverted crying game twist
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The story of Treehorn was very cynical...

One morning Treehorn wakes up and discovers that he is smaller than he was before. His parents and his teachers don’t seem
to notice and his bus driver assumes that he is his own little brother –only with the same name.
This delightful children’s story is about a little boy that nobody notices and the problems that occur when he begins to shrink.
Treehorn is a fan of the mail order section at the end of the comic books. His mother is worried because her cakes never rise the way that her neighbours’ cakes do and his father’s only comment on the situation is that Treehorn should stop shrinking because his mother is upset and thinks that the neighbours will blame her.
When Treehorn gets too small to reach the drinking fountain in the corridor at school his teacher sends him to the principle for jumping in the hall. He tells the principle that he is shrinking and the principle thinks he means shirking and gives him a team speech that does no good what so ever.
So Treehorn continues to shrink. He is forced to wear last year’s clothes and then reaches the point where he has to jump out of bed.
Then, when he can walk under his bed, Treehorn discovers a forgotten board game that he ordered from a comic book. The box promises that it is a game for children to grow on and the last time Treehorn played he went back several spaces.
So, Treehorn completes the game and returns to his normal height. His parents don’t notice the change and when Treehorn discovers that he is turning green he decides not to tell anyone because they won’t notice anyway
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Badger Kitten said:
Yes, The Giant Jam Sandwich.

:)

The joy of worker-co-operation circumventing officious bureaucracy.
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That reminds me of a book about a giant jelly. I think it was called The Great Jelly of London where an enormous jelly is made using the Albert Hall as the mold.
 
As a child I was just as keen on illustrators as the writers. My favourites were Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Edward Ardizzone, Dod Proctor, Quentin Blake, Edward Lear, Edmund Dulac and Dick Bruna.
 
superb book - thanks for the reminder... another one to add to the 'must buy' list for when the nippers get a bit older :cool:

another of my childhood faves i remembered recently - robert graves' the big green book. :)

edit: sorry, rubbish link

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Orang Utan said:
well, do ya?
it's a kid's book about one fat brother and one thin brother who discover an underground world underneath a rock that's populated by fat jolly people and thin tetchy people who are perpetually on the brink of war.
please tell me i haven't imagined it
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I remember the title and the story is slowly coming back to me. Was it done on Jackanory?
 
I remember a kid's picture book about a republic of animals who were fighting some cruel humans.

The humans all had uniforms that were suspiciously close to what US generals wear, and the book itself would have come out in the 1970s sometime.

An allegory for Vietnam?

Oh, and I remember Fattypuffs and Thinifers as well.
 
I read Fattipuffs and Thinnifers at school. It had a weird atmosphere and freaked me out. :eek:

Anyone know Snugglepot and Cuddlepie?
 
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