And then there were postcards

Having dutifully sent off our postcards around the world I really really really hoped we would receive some in return. 

And we did!

One from Canada...

... which recommended "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch.
 
One from India

Lovely handmade-paper card from India with dried flowers that it is best we never tell anyone from Customs about.

... which recommended "Two Crazy Pigs" by Karen Berman Nagel.

One from New Zealand...

... which recommended "Follow That String" by Deborah Brown and Kathy Bacovitch.

One from France...

... which recommended "There Are Cats In This Book" by Viviane Schwarz.

Look at the cute little picture of the cover of the book included on the back of the card:

There was also from the USA, which has disappeared, I suspect down a black hole, never to be retrieved (aka under the fridge). I will update this post with a picture of it if I manage to fish it out.

Next project: go to library and see if we can find copies of any of them!

Thank you to Zoe from Playing By the Book for organising this. It was a great project and I hope it will still be going when Little E is old enough to properly appreciate it.

International Postcard Swap Update

 We received our list of families to whom we need to send a postcard. If our list is representative, Zoe did a great job of allocating everyone different countries and trying to match the ages of the children in the sending/receiving families. Our postcard recipients live in:

International Postcard Swap for Families 2011

 

I just read about this and it sounds super! It is a way of sending and receiving postcards to/from overseas and of learning about good children's books at the same time.

It is being coordinated by Zoe of Playing By the Book. To participate you send her your postal address and your children's ages and sexes. She will send you the details of five overseas families, to whom you send a postcard on which you write a recommendation for a children's book. You will receive five postcards from families overseas in return (not the same families to whom you sent cards).

Zoe's email address is zoe (dot) toft (at) kuvik (dot) net. Full details of the project here.

I used to love writing to my interstate cousins when I was little and I also had a couple of overseas pen friends, so I couldn't sign us up quickly enough!