Flat Stanley. Jeff Brown

      

      For Martha Bo

      First published in Great Britain 1968

      by Methuen & Co. Ltd

      Reissued 2017

      by Egmont UK Limited

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      Text copyright © 1964 Jeff Brown

      Illustrations copyright © 2017 Rob Biddulph

      First e-book edition 2017

      ISBN 978 1 4052 8810 1

      Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1829 5

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      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication and Copyright

       Front series promotional page

CHAPTER 1

       BIG BULLETIN BOARD

       CHAPTER 2

       BEING FLAT

       CHAPTER 3

       STANLEY THE KITE

       CHAPTER 4

       THE MUSEUM THIEVES

       CHAPTER 5

       ARTHUR’S GOOD IDEA

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       Back series promotional page

CHAPTER 1

       BIG BULLETIN BOARD

      Breakfast was ready.

      ‘I will go and wake the boys,’ Mrs Lambchop said to her husband, George Lambchop. Just then their younger son, Arthur, called from the bedroom he shared with his brother, Stanley.

      ‘Hey! Come and look! Hey!’

      Mr and Mrs Lambchop were both very much in favour of politeness and careful speech. ‘Hay is for horses, Arthur, not people,’ Mr Lambchop said as they entered the bedroom. ‘Try to remember that.’

      ‘Excuse me,’ Arthur said. ‘But look!’

      He pointed to Stanley’s bed. Across it lay the enormous bulletin board that Mr Lambchop had given the boys a Christmas ago, so that they could pin up pictures and messages and maps. It had fallen, during the night, on top of Stanley.

      But Stanley was not hurt. In fact he would still have been sleeping if he had not been woken by his brother’s shout.

      ‘What’s going on here?’ he called out cheerfully from beneath the enormous board.

      Mr and Mrs Lambchop hurried to lift it from the bed.

      ‘Heavens!’ said Mrs Lambchop.

      ‘Gosh!’ said Arthur. ‘Stanley’s flat!’

      ‘As a pancake,’ said Mr Lambchop. ‘Darndest thing I’ve ever seen.’

      ‘Let’s all have breakfast,’ Mrs Lambchop said. ‘Then Stanley and I will go and see Doctor Dan and hear what he has to say.’

      The examination was almost over.

      ‘How do you feel?’ Doctor Dan asked. ‘Does it hurt very much?’

      ‘I felt sort of tickly for a while after I got up,’ Stanley Lambchop said, ‘but I feel fine now.’

      ‘Well, that’s mostly how it is with these cases,’ said Doctor Dan.

      ‘We’ll just have to keep an eye on this young fellow,’ he said when he had finished the examination. ‘Sometimes we doctors, despite all our years of training and experience, can only marvel at how little we really know.’

      Mrs Lambchop said she thought that Stanley’s clothes would have to be altered by the tailor now, so Doctor Dan told his nurse to take Stanley’s measurements.

      Mrs Lambchop wrote them down.

      Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and half an inch thick.