The Mount Rushmore Calamity (Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #1)

by Jeff Brown (Author) Macky Pamintuan (Illustrator)

There's no place on Earth a flat kid can't go! Join Stanley on his very first adventure in the renowed Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures series! Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, every trip is an adventure!

The whole Lambchop family is off to see Mount Rushmore. But when Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, team up with a scrappy cowgirl named Calamity Jasper, their vacation turns into the Wild West experience of a lifetime. Pretty soon, they find themselves in a real tight spot--even for a flat boy like Stanley!

Don't miss all of Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures in this chapter book series!

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Starred Review
Flat Stanley is back and better than ever. Pennypacker's revival of this perennially popular character should engender great enthusiasm and may even create new fans for this old favorite.

School Library Journal

Gr 24Capitalizing on the extremely popular (and more than 40-year-old) character created by Jeff Brown, Pennypacker's new travel-themed series features the same tongue-in-cheek humor and earnest, goody-two-shoes sensibility of the original. Here, the flattened-by-a-bulletin-board boy and the rest of the Lambchop family go on vacation to Mount Rushmore, where Stanley and his brother share an adventure with a young gold miner named Calamity Jasper. Stanley's unique abilities allow him to shine as a hero, causing some friction with Arthur, but in the end, they work together to save the day. Readers will find authenticity and humor in the siblings' rivalry, and Calamity Jasper, with her over-the-top Western dialogue, is a perfect slapstick foil to the boys. As an added bonus, interesting historical and geographical information is included in the story and related facts are appended. Though the modernized, cartoon pencil sketches are not as delightfully ridiculous as the artwork in the original series, they integrate well with the plot. Educational and fun, this action-filled tale makes a great choice for early-chapter-book collections; it will surely cause a resurgence of interest in the original series, as well as a desire to read the subsequent installations in the reboot."Nicole Waskie, Chenango Forks Elementary, Binghamton, NY" Copyright 2009 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Classification
-
ISBN-13
9780061429910
Lexile Measure
700
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication date
April 21, 2009
Series
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Adventure and adventurers
Vacations
Gold mines and mining
South Dakota
Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.)
Lambchop, Stanley (Fictitious character)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
Nominee 2012 - 2012

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