This article describes how teachers welcome a diminutive paper doll with outspread arms, bulbous cheeks, and exciting stories to share into their fold to help impart lessons both local and global. Often folded or laminated for protection and accompanied by photographs, the paper doll is part of the international mini-phenomenon known as Flat Stanley. Conceived as a bedtime story and immortalized by the 1964 book of the same name, the cutout boy has become a cult-like hit with teachers. They use the appealing character as a tool to bring reading, writing, geography, and other subjects to life. The basic classroom exercise goes something like this: A student creates a Flat Stanley doll, keeps a journal of the doll's first experiences, and then mails it on an adventure--often to relatives, but sometimes to celebrities. The recipients then return Flat Stanley with new journal entries and photos from his trip.