To celebrate the launch of the 2011 International Postcard Swap for Families I’ve been researching great children’s books, especially picture books, all about letters, mail, post and post offices.
Last year I published a list of 99 such books as a series of Amazon listmania lists:
Click on the links below to take you to the list:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
But now here’s another 20 great books to add to the collection:
The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet Ahlberg
The Jolly Pocket Postman by Janet Ahlberg
A Strange Day by Iris van der Heide
Mail by the pail by Colin Bergel
Send it! by Don Carter
Love, Lizzie by Lisa Tucker McElroy
Hi! by Ann Herbert Scott
Bear at Work by Stella Blackstone
Mailbox Magic by Nancy Poydar
Raymond and Nelda by Barbara Bottner
Postal Workers by Paulette Bourgeois
The Longest Wait by Marie Bradby
I’ll make you a card by Dana Meachen Rau
Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express by Marlene Targ Brill and Craig Orback
For Me? by Harmen van Straaten
I miss you every day by Simms Taback
Special Deliveries by Alexandra Day
Here comes Mr. Eventoff with the mail! by Alice Flanagan
Letter Carriers by Alice Flanagan
The Giant Postman by Sally Grindley
What’s your favourite (children’s) book about post, letters or cards? Have you signed up for the postcard swap yet?
9 Responses
carly@learningparade
We are really looking forward to this! What a super idea to list books that link to the project, we love Meerkat Mail and the Jolly Postman. We’ll be requesting some of these titles from our library before we send our postcards. Thanks, Zoe
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Zoe
Hi Caroline, yes there’s lots of opportunity for play, learning and reading (which of course can also count as play and learning!) with the swap. Hope you are able to find some of these in the library.
jeanne
Love the extensive list of “mailing” books! Dear Mr. Blueberry is an all-time favorite. Frog & Toad’s ‘The Letter’ is right up there, too.
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Zoe
Oh yes, Jeanne, Frog and Toad’s letter is brilliant. Don’t know Dear Mr Blueberry – but thanks for the tip, I shall look for a copy.
Eliza
I love Toot + Puddle by Holly Hobbie – cute little pigs sending postcards from all parts of the world!
Zoe
Thanks for the tip Eliza, don’t know that one, so will definitely look for a copy!
CuriousLibrarian
I don’t know about “favorite,” but I’m very fond of “The Giant Hug” by Sandra Horning. A quick synopsis: A young pig wants to send a hug through the mail to his grandmother. It gets passed from animal to animal in a chain, brightening the day for each one. When the mail carrier delivers the hug to the grandmother, she wants to send a kiss back to her grandson…
Zoe
Oh yes, that’s a fab one! I reviewed it here as part of last year’s swap:
http://www.playingbythebook.net/2010/04/22/sending-smiles-and-an-international-family-postcard-swap/
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