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The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters (1986)

by Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg

Series: The Jolly Postman (1)

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A Jolly Postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each letter may be removed from its envelope page and read separately.
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My two grade-school grand-daughters loved playing with this book together, sending each other the detachable messages.
The story is a rhymed expostion of the Nursery Rhymes Postman's journeys carrying letters between the denizens of Nursery Rhyme Land.

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Surprisingly, I still have all the letters!) ( )
  librisissimo | Jun 26, 2021 |
This book has letters that can be removed as they are written between characters from stories such as Mother Goose, Goldilocks and the bears and the wicked witch. Beautiful illustrations.
  HeidiSki | Jul 12, 2019 |
This book is the cutest book I have read in a long time. My favorite book as a child was Felix and the Flying Suitcase and it was one of my favorite books because it had letters that could be removed and read just like this book. I was smiling from the first letter in the book, and I am so excited that I ended up picking it off of the shelf to read. The irony and humor in this book are in subtle little marks like the heading of the letters and who it was sent from. Any child would love reading this book, even if they had not read all of the fairytale stories that are included in the book. Children who know the fairytale stories would enjoy the irony and humor that is throughout the book. ( )
  oleger | Apr 25, 2019 |
Wow! What an awesome book for children of all ages!! This book touches on all of the fairy tales that children are hearing at home and at school. It is about the Jolly Postman who delivers mail (letters) to fairy tale characters from other fairy tale characters. Children will love this book because it contains real letters! When reading through the book, each new part has a letter that you can take out and read. This is a great asset to a book because instead of just reading the letter on the page a child can take it out and see it as if they intercepted the mail from the character in the book. ( )
  GrantHebert | Feb 25, 2019 |
The jolly postman delivers letters to many of the popular fairy tale characters. Students would enjoy reading this book because of the cool envelope pull outs with the letters written on them. I certainly enjoyed pulling out the letters and reading them. ( )
  Indiam16 | Nov 27, 2018 |
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Once upon a bicycle, so they say, a Jolly Postman came one day from over the hills and far away...with a letter for the Three Bears.
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A Jolly Postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each letter may be removed from its envelope page and read separately.

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