Paper Trail.

The article describes how a fictitious character Flat Stanley has linked students around the world. Conceived as a bedtime story and immortalized by the 1964 book of the same name, Stanley has become a cultlike hit with teachers, who use the appealing character as a tool to bring reading, writing, geography, and other subjects to life. Jeff Brown, who died in December 2003 at age 77, couldn't have imagined what would become of the character he created. The character was first published by Harper Collins Publishers.