Letterbox Green Pilot, The Guardian, July 2010
Alison Flood in The Guardian explains how the new Letterbox Green parcel will help looked-after children in the early years of secondary school.
Click here to read the full article from 19 July, 2010
Lucy Mangan, Guardian Weekend, May 2010
Parcel delivery for Letterbox 2010 is now up and running and back in May, Lucy Mangan, writing in Guardian Weekend, explained how the children's books were chosen.
Click here to read the full article from 8 May, 2010
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, The Sun, February 2010
Letterbox Club patron and award-winning children's author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, explained to The Sun newspaper how the scheme helps real-life Tracy Beakers.
Click here to read the full article from 19 February 2010
The Learning Curve, 29 September
Letterbox Club founder Rose Griffiths and a foster child and carer who participated in the Letterbox Club in 2007 spoke on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Learning Curve with Libby Purves.
Society Guardian, 17 September: Posting results
A book club designed to improve the literacy and numeracy of looked-after children proves that the letterbox really does deliver.
Carolyn Proudfoot's doormat has become one of the most exciting places in her house. The children in her foster care are part of the Letterbox Club, aimed at improving looked-after children's literacy and numeracy. And once a month, for six months, a package addressed to the children and filled with books, games and other goodies arrives through the letterbox.
BBC News, 16 September: Parcel book club ‘boosts reading’
A reading scheme which sends parcels of books to foster children struggling with literacy helps them improve at twice the usual rate, researchers find.
The Letterbox Club sends personally addressed packages of books, maths games and stationary to the children once a month for six months.
