Book to read

If you haven’t already fallen in love with Meerkat Mail, we’d like you to consider racing to your local store and buying it. If the ‘brown paper packages tied up with string’ cover doesn’t win you over, the great illustrations and the wonderful storytelling will.  The postcards Sunny sends home, however, will push you over the edge into a world of adoration and wonderment.  How funny to watch the address change as Sunny longs more and more for home.  How amusing to see the stamps and the postal marks change.  How absolutely astonishing how the tiny print on the postcard turns the book from fiction to non-fiction.  Our favourite storytime books are books that are sweet teachers…plot plus facts.  The way that Gravett has worked the non-fiction bits in to it through the structure of the postcards is just so endearing.

I thought I’d included a link in the last post.  Sorry.  Directions for the freezer paper stencils here.  SouleMama even links to an online video of herself demonstrating the process, guaranteed to fire you with enthusiasm and fill you with wonder at the the ease of it all.