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Past Boxes & Extra Treats!
- June 2021 Lands to Get Lost In Box
- April 2021 Out in the Wilderness Box
- February 2021 Historical Heroes Box
- Adventurous Reader Pack
June 2021 Lands to Get Lost In Box
£22.00 – £27.00
From £22 per box
Winding mythical worlds, buried family secrets and fantasy adventures galore!
If you love nothing more than disappearing into a good book – the LANDS TO GET LOST IN box is the one for you!
Our June box will include two novels set in mythical worlds, themed surprises and collectable pages for your “Chronicle Files”, including letters from the authors, quizzes, review cards and more! Read more…
Tales by Mail | June 2021
Lands to Get Lost In
About the Books
BOOK ONE features a curious-minded young girl who has been sent to spend the summer with her mysterious grandmother. Soon after her arrival in a remote African village, our heroine discovers a dark, dreamlike secret… Can she unwind village folk tales and her own family history to find the truth?
BOOK TWO is set in a world where your destiny is decided at birth and cannot be altered. Then, after revealing a future-changing discovery, an important scientist disappears and it’s up to her children to find her! Can this brave brother and sister duo track down their missing mother and survive a breath-taking adventure packed with ancient myths, science and dragons?!
Past Boxes are posted upon purchase. Our Sibling Boxes include an extra set of Chronicle pages and gifts, so two young bookworms can share the reading fun!
April 2021 Out in the Wilderness Box
£22.00 – £27.00
From £22 per box
Grab your rucksacks and prepare to explore the great outdoors!
The OUT IN THE WILDERNESS box is perfect for book-lovers and nature-lovers who are craving sun-soaked, rainbow-filled, snowy adventures!
Our April box will include two novels about the wild natural world, a BONUS book, themed surprises and collectable pages for your “Chronicle Files”, including letters from the authors, quizzes, review cards and more! Read more…
Tales by Mail | April 2021
Out in the Wilderness
About the Books
MELT by ELE FOUNTAIN: is set in a remote, snowy, Arctic tundra, where rising temperatures threaten the traditional future of a boy and his Grandmother. When he embarks on a misguided hunting mission, the boy’s troubles collide with those of a runaway girl. Together, they set out on an epic race across icy landscapes, uncovering dark secrets, evading capture and battling the sub-zero temperatures.
THE WEATHER WEAVER by TAMSIN MORI features a nature-lover who is delighted to return to the middle-of-nowhere Shetland Islands and reunite with her Grandfather. Her summer takes an unexpected turn, when she meets a mysterious woman who befriends clouds, summons storms and captures rainbows. While she watches in awe, this young apprentice realises that she has a few of her own weather tricks up her sleeve and they are about to become VERY useful!
THE BONUS BOOK: HOPE JONES SAVES THE WORLD by JOSH LACEY & BEATRIZ CASTRO is the first in a brilliant series about a young activist and her battle to tackle climate change!
Past Boxes are posted upon purchase. Our Sibling Boxes include an extra set of Chronicle pages and gifts, so two young bookworms can share the reading fun!
February 2021 Historical Heroes Box
£22.00 – £27.00
From £22 per box
Calling all tiny trailblazers! It’s time to turn back the clock…
Prepare for hazardous histories, unforgettable adventures and small but seriously MIGHTY heroes! Forget the grown-ups, our HISTORICAL HEROES box celebrates the pocket-sized pioneers who saved the day!
Our HISTORICAL HEROES box will include two novels about unlikely heroes in extraordinary times, themed surprises and collectable pages for your “Chronicle Files”, including letters from the authors, quizzes, review cards and activities! Read more…
Tales by Mail | February 2021
Historical Heroes
About the Books
THE QUEEN’S FOOL features Cat Sparrow, a plucky convent girl, with a talent for music and a very different way of viewing the world. When her sister is kidnapped, our young heroine sets out in hot pursuit and soon finds herself on the trail of King Henry VIII, Queen Katherine and a mixed up tale of traitors and treason!
DARWIN’S DRAGON follows Simms Covington – a cabin boy assistant to the great Charles Darwin – on an epic journey to the Galapagos Islands. When a terrible storm tosses the crew out into the waves, our young hero finds himself shipwrecked on a deserted shore with only a deadly volcano and a whole host of unbelievable creatures for company!
Alongside these two novels about unlikely heores in extraordinary times, each box will contain signed bookplates and letters from the authors, Chronicle pages including games and activities and a few themed surprises. A follow-up podcast episode will include Q&As with the authors and a book group chat with our school Pod Squad.
Past Boxes are posted upon purchase. Our Sibling Boxes include an extra set of Chronicle pages and gifts, so two young bookworms can share the reading fun!
Adventurous Reader Pack – Sent immediately
£12.00
Kickstart your subscription with the Tales by Mail Adventurous Reader pack!
Get your book-lover excited for their subscription with a chameleon enamel pin and a Chronicles of an Adventurous Reader ring-binder file: perfect for storing the collectable pages that you’ll find inside your boxes.
£12 each
