![]() This fun interactive book (each page contains a pocket that a child can reach into to pull out a letter, card or note) is a British classic. The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Janet Ahlberg (1986) I hope they will spur you and your children to take out that special stationery or sharpen those pencils and send love in an envelope to family and friends from afar. Here are a few picture books I would recommend on letters and letter writing. When I began college in the US and my parents moved back to France, those aerograms in my mailbox were like rays of sunshine breaking through the clouds on a rainy day! I still have all of those letters my mom sent me in a keepsake box. ![]() I would read and re-read her letters, tucking them under my pillow at night. My mother’s long letters describing our family life, stories about my siblings, visitors, our cats poured from the pages, and I was transported back to our home life in Villeneuve-Le-Roi. I loved it – however I missed my family terribly. ![]() When I was eight years old, my classmates and I attended a month long ski camp in the Alps. I realize handwritten letters is not as popular anymore and have largely been replaced by electronic mail but I still think a handwritten letter, or drawings is a very personal and warm way to communicate love and thoughts. ![]()
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