Flat Stanley Reports to His Third Grader

Flat Stanley knows the routine script of a routine murder. The fresh breakfast and the unplanned baby, the middle-parted hairstyle and the unsexy sock, the ex-husband and the household hierarchies—all follow Flat Stanley from mail post to mail post. What is it to harm? What is it to hurt? What is it to want a love in which one is safe? Jennifer A. Howard’s Flat Stanley Reports Back to his Third Grader considers the context: does watching every episode of Forensic Files give one the ability to avoid injury