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Flat Stanley comes home
Oct. 20th, 2006 06:25 amUntil yesterday all of the returned indications of Flat Stanley visiting with family had been virtual. There had been nice color printer output, but somehow my daughter seemed to regard that as routine.
Yesterday I assembled a mini-book of my digital photos of Flat Stanley. I added a cover page with a title in big letters, and I added a story to explain the images I chose. My daughter read the title out loud, skipped the detailed story, and paged through the images.
Then we opened the envelope which had arrived while I was gone. It was from my cousin in Chicago. A few weeks back at the library my daughter had chosen a book about Illinois because she knew I had lived there. With the book she was totally fascinated by the fact that skyscrapers had originated in Chicago, and she included that prominently in her first book report. I had relayed that to my cousin.
The contents of the envelope revealed that my cousin Flat Stanley to the top of the John Hancock tower. She included the ticket, the brochures, the postcards, and she had taped him onto windows around the periphery of the observation deck taking photos of the cityscape and lake shore. In her note she explained that she preferred Hancock to the newer, taller Sears tower.
My daughter was awestruck. She lingered over each photo. When she was done (which took several passes through each item) she asked if she had to take the results to her teacher. She said she did not want them all posted on the wall like the other Flat Stanleys from the class. My daughter simply wanted to keep it all and treasure it.
Yesterday I assembled a mini-book of my digital photos of Flat Stanley. I added a cover page with a title in big letters, and I added a story to explain the images I chose. My daughter read the title out loud, skipped the detailed story, and paged through the images.
Then we opened the envelope which had arrived while I was gone. It was from my cousin in Chicago. A few weeks back at the library my daughter had chosen a book about Illinois because she knew I had lived there. With the book she was totally fascinated by the fact that skyscrapers had originated in Chicago, and she included that prominently in her first book report. I had relayed that to my cousin.
The contents of the envelope revealed that my cousin Flat Stanley to the top of the John Hancock tower. She included the ticket, the brochures, the postcards, and she had taped him onto windows around the periphery of the observation deck taking photos of the cityscape and lake shore. In her note she explained that she preferred Hancock to the newer, taller Sears tower.
My daughter was awestruck. She lingered over each photo. When she was done (which took several passes through each item) she asked if she had to take the results to her teacher. She said she did not want them all posted on the wall like the other Flat Stanleys from the class. My daughter simply wanted to keep it all and treasure it.
