
Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown.

In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964. He won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Blown Away and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway medal for GRRRRR! His other books include Odd Dog Out (Aug 2016) and Sunk! (March 2017).Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Rob Biddulph is a bestselling and award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. Jeff created the classic character Flat Stanley, whose adventures have been beloved by children around the world for more than 50 years. He worked on the at The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post, and his stories appeared in these magazines and many others. Jeff Brown was a story editor and assistant film producer in Hollywood.

It’s up to Stanley to persuade Santa … and save Christmas! It’s not every Christmas you get flown to the North Pole to meet Santa.īut Santa is fed up. With brilliant new illustrations by the award-winning author/illustrator Rob Biddulph.Īmazing things always happen to Stanley Lambchop … The hilarious and magical adventures of everyone’s favourite flat hero – Flat Stanley.
