The witch looks through the order form of various witch essentials such as “just add water frog powder” and “sky high goggles for a witch to wear while riding her broom”. As the three bears read the letter the postman finished his tea, and leaves.ĭuring the postman’s second stop on his route, he visits a “gingerbread cottage” in the forest to deliver an order form to the witch from the folktale Hansel and Gretel. Goldilocks also invites Baby Bear to her birthday party where there will be “three kinds of jelly” and a “magishun”. The letters that the postman delivers all have the same theme of either picking up where the folktales/fairytales ended, or creating a side story from the original folktales or fairytales that us (the audience) know the usual plot of.Īt the Postman’s first stop he delivers a letter from Goldilocks to The Three Bears apologizing for various mistakes she made while she was in their house, such as "eating baby bear’s porij” and “breaking the little chair”. At each stop on the postman's route he delivers a letter to one of the characters, and is served a cup of tea, while the folktale/fairytale characters who received the letters, read them and react to what the letters say. The plot of the book begins with a jolly postman who rides a bicycle through a town, delivering letters to various fairytale and folktale characters.
The book is a picture book because it uses visual illustrations (and letters) to assist the text, in telling the story.
The Jolly Postman is a children’s fantasy picture book because it includes many fantastical elements such as a family of three bears that receive letters and serve a postman tea. The picture book called The Jolly Postman: Or Other People’s Letters was written by a British couple named Janet and Allan Ahlberg, and was published in 1986.
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