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Here are the entries to our Jolly Postman Competition

WINNER!

Dear Mr Wolf,

How are you today? I had heard about your escapades in the woods the other day, I was told that you had been a very bad Big Bad Wolf. Is that true? It is no wonder that you had a tummy upset, didn't your mummy tell you that you should not gulp your food? To get benefit from it, you must chew it to get all the goodness. However, I bet Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandma were pleased that you didn't chew. It was lucky for you that the woodcutter didn't throw you down the well. Don't you think it's funny that the end of all your stories are never the same? It's a good job it wasn't the one where the woodcutter cut off your head! Because then who would have read my letter? Please behave yourself in the future, I hope you feel better soon.

Kindest regards Michaela xx

By Michaela, age 7


Dear Three Little Pigs,
Please come round to tea. I promise I won't huff and I won't puff and I won't blow your house down and I won't even mention sausages.

Lots of love from,
The big bad woo...er,
I mean, Anne

By Anne, age 8

 

Dear Hansel and Gretel,
I would just like to send you a letter telling you it's dangerous to accept sweets from strangers and people who seem nice. I know sweets are really nice, but the witch wasn't and you had a lucky escape. You should have eaten the bread and then waited until your dad got home and told him about your mum's horrible plan and maybe your dad would have given you some sweets for telling the truth.
Best wishes

Lisa

By Lisa, age 9



Dear Robin Hood and his Merry men,
You are very good at firing arrows, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. I won't be your girlfriend because you live in the woods, wear tights and smell like tree sap. Please stop bugging me and asking me to be your girlfriend or I'll call the Sheriff and he will put you in jail.
Yours faithfully
Maid Marian

By George, age 8 weeks
(with a little help from her big brother Sam)

 

Dear Mrs Bear,
What was it like to find out that your home had been trashed by Goldilocks?
Did you feel upset, or were you shocked, or were you angry?
Did you tell her off? I would if
I were you, she was very naughty.

With love from Katie

By Katie, age 6

 

Miss R Hood
The Playhouse
Garden Path
Diddle Dumpling

Dear Little Red Riding Hood

I would like to invite you to come round to my house we will have a lot of fun.
My name is Eilidh and I am seven years old. I do home school it is really fun and I get really clever. I play the harp, it makes a lovely sound.
How old are you, and do you go to school?
I would love to ask you what it was like to be eaten by a wolf with your grandmother. Was it squashy? It must have been horrible. How was it to be saved by a woodcutter? Does it seem like a dream? Do you still go for walks in the forest?
I have foxes in my garden but no wolves. I do not like foxes. They make a mess in my garden and they eat my neighbour's guinea pigs. Sometimes I walk in the woods to take my brother to school. I am always very careful. When you come to my house we can go for a walk, you will love it.
I can't walk to my grandmother's house because she lives in Scotland and I live in England. I think it would take about a year to walk so when we go to visit we take an aeroplane or drive in the car. I wish I could walk to see her because we don't see her very often. To get to my Grandmother's house I do not have to go in the woods because there are no woods near her house.
Please ask your mummy if you could come and visit.
Love from
Eilidh

By Eilidh, age 7

 

Dear Pussy cat, Pussy cat,

Thank you for the postcard of Big Ben.
I hope you had a lovely time in London. You said you visited the Queen, what was the palace like and did you play with the corgis? Or just frighten the little mouse?

I went on the London Eye once. I could see right over the River Thames, it was purrfect.

Please write soon with more meowful adventures.

Sam

By Sam, age 6

Dear Chicken Licken

Is the sky really falling down? When I look up it does not move but I am worried it will hit me on the head.
I hope you can put my mind at rest.
Love from
Olivia

By Olivia, age 4

 

Dear Daddy Bear,


I have been wondering what Goldilocks's middle name is. It is never in the story. Did you find out? Was it Pippi Longstocking? I think it is because Pippi hasn't got a mummy to make her porridge. Is Goldilock's house called Villekulla cottage in a little town near a forest like Pippi's? I wish I could go there.
With love, from Joshua

Please say hello to Baby Bear too.

By Joshua, age 4

 

Peter's Artwork

Dear Jack,
How do you make your beanstalk grow so tall? Mine will only grow small so I can't get to Giant Land. I'd quite like a magic hen.
Can you send me some magic beans off your beanstalk so I can grow one?
Love from Peter

 

 

By Peter, age 6


We also received some fantastic entries from these schools (click on the school name to see the entries):

St Edmund's School, Canterbury
Wybunbury Delves Primary School, Cheshire
St Anne's Infant School, Cardiff
Crossroads Primary School, Northern Ireland

All the schools received some special books for sending us in such great entries.






 

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