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The American Girls Postcard Collection, released this fall, drops neatly into Christmas stockings. This set of 25 full-color postcards features five pictures for each of the five young heroines in the popular series of historical fiction. A line or two on the card's back makes the connection with one of the stories.
For young writers who want to tackle the longer letter, there are boxed stationery sets based on each character. We looked at Addy's Stationery Set (Pleasant Company, $9.95, ISBN 15624788X) which, like the others, contains stationery, envelopes, note cards, a lined guide, two sticker sheets, and a booklet about letters and their delivery during the period of that character's life -- plenty to introduce the fine art of letter writing to a young practitioner.
Thank-you letters may come easier this year.
The Merry Christmas Postcard Storybook is a super way to help young children have fun all through the holidays.
The join-in-and-do-this-too story about Mr. Charles's class making cookies to decorate their tree at school also encourages readers to send Christmas postcards. The lower portion of each page in this ten-page book is a postcard with a picture to be colored on one side and clearly marked spaces for writing a brief note and addressing on the other.
The cookie recipe on the last page (headlined with instructions "Never use the oven without an adult present") also includes recipes for icing and egg yolk paint. Kids young enough to anticipate a visit from Santa may not be old enough to write much, but the story suggests lots of content they can dictate to a scribe, and they will be enthusiastic about sending their colored pictures on the front.
You may want to buy ten copies of this book and plan a party for your favorite first and second graders. They can decorate a tree in the yard with cookies for birds -- and then write cards about birds that flew in for a holiday feast.
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