Flat Stanley: With a Little Help From My Friends

Here's a request from my sister, Betsy:

"As you know, I'm a sucker for little kids and now I have another project. At the school where I teach, the third graders read a book about a little boy named Flat Stanley (Stinky's Bro???) who gets smashed by a bulletin board. Flat Stanley folds himself up and mails himself to visit friends in California. (Steve, Gary, Lucy?) Our third graders draw pictures of themselves and mail them to a friend or relative that will take Flat Billy (or Flat Betty or Flat Susie, etc) out and send them back a letter or a picture of Flat Billy (Betty, etc.) visiting friends and relatives in someplace other than KC.

As it happens, some of the kids have no one to whom they can mail their flat person. Somehow I adopt them. Here's how you can help:

Please send a postcard with a picture of someplace other than Kansas City to:

Yasmin Huerta

Briarwood Elementary School

C/O Mrs Wright's 3rd grade

5300 W. 86th Street

Prairie Village, KS 66207

Thanks so much for this. These kids have so little and when they start getting more mail than the kids who have everything and whose parents provide everything-well, it's always a delight to see the way they open up.

Your postcard should say something like:

Dear Yazmin

I'm having a wonderful time in _______. Wish you were here.

Love, Flat Yazmin

Thanks, again.

Betsy

"

So there you have it, kids. Apparently grade schoolers all over are participating in the 'Flat Stanley'project. Flat Yazmin should be getting greetings from sea to shining sea.

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