The Jolly Postman

Interest Level: Kindergarten

Grade Level Equivalent 2.5

Genre: Mystery and Suspense

Subgenre: Western

Theme: Letter Writing and Nursery Rhymes

Characters: Postman, Cinderella, Three Bears, BB Wolf, Wicked Witch, Goldilocks, and Mr. V. Bigg

Awards: 1986 Kurt Maschler Award and 1987 Children's Book Award

Publication: 2001

Publishing Company: Heinemann

ISBN: 0-043-92515-2

Summary:  The Jolly Postman visits home after home in a world of fairy tales, delivering letters, postcards, newsletters, and invitations.  The delivered mail pieces are actually enclosed in envelopes throughout each page within the story.  Each piece of mail is specifically related to the fairy tale represented in the story.

Classroom: The teacher could use this story for a variety of writing assignments.  The samples included are great ways to model writing different forms of correspondence.