We unfolded him, and saw that he was smiling. He had come all the way from Boston and arrived just fine. Then we read the note from Olivia: "Please take Stanley with you wherever you go, and then send him back with photos and the story of his visit," it said. Or something very close to that.
Everyone in the house wanted to meet Flat Stanley. First, he met Gigi the cat. Gigi is five years old, and she loves to meet new friends. She took Flat Stanley right under her wing. She showed him her favorite spot to curl up and nap. She showed him her favorite toy, which is a little knitted boot. She showed him her scratching box, which is filled with catnip and allows her to exercise and stretch and keep her claws neat and trim. Stanley did not care for the scratching box, but he liked Gigi's curl-up spot and her little knitted boot. And Gigi liked that Flat Stanley was a very good sport.
Next, Flat Stanley met our parrots, Phoebe, Tyco, and Woody. Phoebe is a yellow-headed Amazon parrot. She is four years old. That's young in parrot years. Amazon parrots are natives of Guatemala and Belize, in Central America. Tyco is an African Grey parrot, and he is seven. African Grey parrots are found in the wild in the rain forests of Central and West Africa. African Grey parrots love to talk, and Tyco is no exception. His favorite things to say are "What's going on here?" and "You're the best gray bird in the whole world!" Woody, a Derbyan parakeet, is 14. Derbyans are found in India and China. Woody got his name because he loves to chew up wood. His cage is filled with wooden toys for him to gnaw on, and with wood shavings that used to be toys! Phoebe, Tyco, and Woody were all born and raised here in America and they are very tame. They let Flat Stanley play with their wood-and-rope toys.
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