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Title: Flat Stanley at Bat
Author and Illustrator: Lori Haskins Houran and Macky Pamintuan
Publication Year: 2012
Title: Flat Stanley at Bat
Author and Illustrator: Lori Haskins Houran and Macky Pamintuan
Publication Year: 2012
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Plot summary: Stanley Lambchop is four feet tall, one foot wide and half an inch thick ever since a bulletin board flattened him. But that doesn't stop him from wanting to be a normal boy. Stanley decides to try out for the baseball team and after some practice with his younger brother Arthur he makes the team. After the first game people don't think it is fair he gets to play because of his flatness. They think his flatness gives him an unfair advantage. So Stanley gets the idea to stuff his uniform with laundry to make him bigger. He hopes it will prove that he is a good player flat or not, and it works. Series:
| Strong vocabulary: The vocabulary in this book is fairly simple most of the words would fall in the students vocabulary but they may have difficulty with these words flatness, politely, frilly, sailed, gulped, inning, and umpire. Figurative Language: This book uses onomatopoeia with the capitalized words "WHOOSH", "PLUNK", "SMASHED", and "BAP". These words sound like the sounds they are making which creates not only a visual but sounds for what the reader is reading. Relationship of Pictures to Words: The picture and words in this book have a complementary relationship. The pictures help to give a visual of what the words are saying and the words give dialogue to the pictures. Themes/Central concepts:
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