The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters, Janet and Allan Ahlberg

The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters is a unique picture book that is full of letters, brochures, and postcards that you can actually take out of envelopes in the book and read.  Like Mirror, Mirror it is about fairy tales and the characters sending letters, brochures, and postcards to one another.  In the end it kind of comes full circle because the character who sent the first letter receives the last letter in the book.  It is a book that students would like especially with being able to take things out of the envelopes.

I will certainly use The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters in my classroom.  I would use it to teach students how to write letters and address envelopes.  I would teach them how we write dear put the recipients name and then a comma, then we write the message, then we write sincerely, and the writers name.  I would pull out the letters from the book to show them as examples to show students.  You could also use this with a community helpers unit and teach about the mailman.  This is a fabulous book.