![]() College Square Elementary in Beaver, Pennsylvania USA is one such location. ![]() Although Stanley's creator, Jeff Brown, died in 2003, the escapades of Flat Stanley continue through the imagination of teachers and students around the globe. Stanley Lambchop's two-dimensional status was the result of an unfortunate accident involving a heavy bulletin board that fell onto him in the night. The Amazing Adventures of Flat Stanley and Aunt Lindaįlat Stanley was created in 1964 by Jeff Brown, who continued writing about the life of Flat Stanley in a series of books. Better yet, send him a supportive e-mail along with an interesting Flat Stanley photo for the collection.Thanks for visiting the Earth Science Outreach Page! 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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