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Mystery Is All Around Us
Our new Bigfoot mystery has been officially released into the wild and our newest batch of Jr. Detectives are already on the case. We’ve said it before and we will say it again: we really are excited about this one. It’s completely different than all of our other mysteries: a classic Whodunnit set in an old mansion and all of the guests (including the butler!) are suspects.But the guests aren’t just any guests. They are members of a secret organization that gets together to study cryptids - animals unknown to science. The Case of the Missing Bigfoot is full of facts about hidden...
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Light the Spark of Learning with Mail Order Mystery
We know that a lot of parents worry about the “summer slide”. We worry that our kids will forget half of what they learned the year before and when school starts in the fall they won’t know what hit them. But we also worry about our kids’ fickle relationship with reading. Sometimes they love it. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they read without being reminded. Sometimes they won’t. What happens if they don’t want to read? How are they going to get through all those years of school?We know this is a busy time.There are forms to fill out, clothes to...
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We Love These Reviews by Kids!
Here at Mail Order Mystery we love things that are by kids, for kids. So it’s no surprise that we love our two most recent reviews, both of them by kids. This is Agent Doomking, aka Mitchell Cook. He is the editor of iGen21, a fantastic online magazine with kid contributors from all over the world. In the latest issue he reviewed Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys.Here are some excerpts:Week two: “I checked the mail every day waiting for my next letter from S.H.O.E. I once checked it four times, once at midnight.”Week three: “Scrabble’s fun, but not when it’s used...
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Hey Grown-Ups: It’s Not Too Late!
When we were kids summer seemed to go on forever. Remember? That glorious combination of kid time stretching out endlessly and the exquisite boredom of long, aimless days.Kids have way more structure in their summers than we used to. The days of “go outside and play and come home when the streetlights go on” are from a bygone era. But kids’ sense of time still stretches out like evening shadows, and for them summer is long and full of possibility.For us grown-ups summer flies by so fast it’s almost cruel. But it’s not too late for the kids. There’s...
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Knock Knock. Who’s There?
Knock Knock. Who’s there?Boo hoo.Boo hoo who?Don’t cry. It’s only us, and we’re here to turn that frown upside down with some knee-slappers for International Joke Day. It’s this Sunday and we want to make sure you’re ready. We’ve plundered the vaults of our top secret spy school questionnaires for some of our favourite kid jokes.These questionnaires are our favourite part of the Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys mystery. Our Junior agents-in-training receive them with their spy school welcome package. They fill them out and send them back to us with answers to various questions like: “How many push-ups can you...
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Hand Over That Letter Mr. Bones!
One of the great things about a Mail Order Mystery is getting stuff in the mail. Kids love checking the mailbox to see if their next letter has arrived. But you know what’s even better? Checking the bony clutches of this here skeleton pirate, yaar. Shiver me timbers! It’s Mr. Bones and it looks like he’s gotten hold of a very important message!Summer plans can be complicated. This is why we have options for you. If you have special requests for how you would like your Mail Order Mystery shipped - like holding your mystery for a few weeks while you...