The 2009 Letterbox Club was launched at Penguin headquarters on the Strand in London on 15 September 2008.
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.
