Interactive Books with Removable Letters, Cards, & Other Objects

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Please vote for interactive books where the pages hold removable items, such as letters, cards, photos, booklets, postcards, or small hard objects, such as the tiny magnifying glass included in The Jolly Pocket Postman. Books may not include "bonus" items, such as sets of crayons or stickers. The items must serve practical purposes to the stories' plots. Examples include titles in the The Jolly Postman series by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, and titles in the Letters From Felix series by Annette Langen.

Please only vote for interactive titles. Please don't vote for books written in an epistolary format, nor merely document pictures of letters, postcards, or the like. Books do not need to feature postal themes, but ideally should have full plots, despite some votes below manage to relate stories without plots. The Postman and Felix series happen to be the only books of which the list creator is aware that employ this form of interactive reading. Your votes could be for anything, fiction and non-fiction, as long as the title uses this type of physical format.

Also, please don't vote for any kind of interactive book besides those requested (so no pop-up books, touch-and-feel books, gamebooks ["Choose Your Own..."], coloring or doodling books, books that use stickers, and hidden object/seek-and-find books, unless they too feature removable cards, letters, booklets, etc. as part of the story's plot).

The only books of this kind appear to be children's picture books. However, if anyone out there knows of a book of this sort whose intended audience are adults and/or young adults, please don't hesitate to vote for it!
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message 1: by - (last edited Mar 20, 2021 04:07PM) (new)

- So many of the additions to this list seem so cool, I can't wait to read them! I'm so pleased to discover them! Thank you, voters! Are you guys enjoying this? Which books on this list are you happy to find? Are they happy memories or ones that seem to be intriguing?


message 2: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie A. I'm obsessed with this list! This kind of book has been my dream since I was a little kid first coming across The Jolly Postman (age appropriate) and Griffin & Sabine (less so, albeit mainly due to being confusing), and finding out how many more exist has been a blast. It's surprisingly hard to figure out what to google to find more, so this resource is incredible.

I own a few and have been able to request a handful more from interlibrary loan (The Secrets of Pistoulet, Cathy's Book, and Time Traveler's Journal so far), and each one has been so fun to play with, as much as read.


message 3: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer Great List! So Glad I found it. Would like to point out despite what the Editor Notes state, many of these books are not Children's/YA Bks. such as any of the Nick Bantock books.


message 4: by Amy (new)

Amy M There was a book in the early 90s that was super popular at my elementary school, but I can't rember what it was. I recall there being several letters and envelopes.


message 5: by Capn (new)

Capn - . how do you feel about tethered-by-a-ribbon instruments? There's a board book with a 'magic flashlight' I will add, but I'm not sure if you'd appreciate it here. Please let me know - happy to delete it if so. :) Goodnight Lion


message 6: by Judith (new)

Judith re: " Would like to point out despite what the Editor Notes state, many of these books are not Children's/YA Bks."
the Editor writes:
"The only books of this kind appear to be children's picture books. However, if anyone out there knows of a book of this sort whose intended audience are adults and/or young adults, please don't hesitate to vote for it! "
The Nick Bantock books are open-ended, and for adults. Another interactive book filled with ephemeral paraphernalia (in comes shrink-wrapped, but once opened... beware!) I just added above: "S" by J.J. Abrams.


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