When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.

"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown"--Verso t.p. A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.

When Santa quits his job a few days before Christmas because of too many greedy children, his daughter whisks young Stanley Lambchop and his family off to the North Pole to help change the old man's mind.