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Back to School Doesn't Have to Mean Back to the Old Grind
Read more →As we enter what feels like month number nine million of the pandemic, a lot of us are struggling with the uncertainties of another school year. Kids have bounced around between classrooms, virtual learning and homeschooling, and it's been a tough eighteen months for them. Getting them back into school routines can be a challenge with the endless disruption and distraction. But back to school, no matter what form it takes, can be an opportunity to get kids excited about learning. There's no better time to make reading, learning and problem-solving fun than now, before the homework battles set in. Mail Order Mysteries...
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Send Weekly Is Back! 📬
Read more →We know how much kids love getting mail. We love it too. But for the past year, we've only been able to offer our "All in One Box" shipping option where we package up all six mystery installments in one box and send them out together. Predictable mail delivery was one of the casualties of the pandemic. Mail Order Mysteries are stories that are told through a series of letters and it is important that these letters arrive in a timely manner and in the correct order. For the past year we haven't been confident that would happen, so we temporarily stopped offering our...
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Sneak Some Learning Into Your Summer Fun
Read more →It's hard to believe, but summer break is more than half over. And whether your kids dread it or can't wait for it, (or whether you dread it or can't wait for it), kids will be back to school in no time. Even though summer flies by, it's still enough time for the infamous “summer slide" to set in. The "summer slide" is when everything that kids learned at school falls out of their heads and has to be stuffed back in again in September. The trick to slowing the summer slide is to keep kids thinking and reading, and that's what Mail Order...
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How Our Mysteries Inspire Real World Adventure
Read more →We love getting emails from people who are doing our mysteries. We design them with love, so it's pretty magical to hear about the different ways that kids are living their Mail Order Mystery experience. Like this email we recently got from a mom whose daughter is in the middle of The Enchanted Slumber. We've heard about kids digging in the back yard looking for treasure, kids doing jousting practice to hone their noble knight skills, one junior detective dressed up as Vivian Quenby from The Case of the Missing Bigfoot. We even received a letter from a parent who...
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And the Winner Is: The Mystery of the Dead Baboon...
Read more →Every so often at Mail Order Mystery someone sends us a picture or a letter and we think, this is so awesome, we should have a contest for this kind of thing. And then we think, but wait, this would win the contest anyway. And then we think, let’s skip the contest and just announce the winner! So we are pleased to announce the winner of the Contest We Never Had: Best Mystery Inspired by a Mail Order Mystery - The Mystery of the Dead Baboon. It is a thrilling whodunnit about a baboon who dropped dead while provoking a hippo,...
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What’s the Best Way to Do a Mail Order Mystery?
Read more →Mail Order Mysteries are stories. Like all stories, there are ideal conditions for enjoyment, which are mainly: reading them in the correct order, reading them in their entirety and, when kids are involved, helping them when they need help. Other than that, there aren’t any conditions that are deal breakers. Mail Order Mysteries are fun when kids think they are real but they can also be just as fun when kids know they aren’t real. Mail Order Mysteries are fun when they come in the mail, one letter at a time, but they can be just as fun, engaging and...