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What Is the Best Age for a Mail Order Mystery?
Read more →One question we get asked a lot is: what is the best age for a Mail Order Mystery? Since we launched our newest mystery this fall (The Case of the Missing Bigfoot) we now have four mysteries to choose from. Here is how we would break each of them down by age: Treasure Hunt: age 6+The pirate-themed Treasure Hunt is an exciting story involving long-lost pirate treasure and double-crossing pirates. The story has a strong appeal to kids 6 - 10. (Younger kids may need some help with the reading.) The narrative is engaging but not overly complex and this...
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Mail Order Mysteries Help Grow Great Kids
Read more →October always puts us in a reflective frame of mind. We find ourselves thinking about things like what we do, why we do it, how many checkmarks, prize wheels, consequences and bribes it’s actually going to take to get the kids to clear their dishes without being asked. We all know that parenting can be mystifying. Some things come easily. Others don’t. And the hardest things to teach kids seem to be the things that are the most important, like what it takes to become resourceful and resilient, like how to engage with the world beyond screens.Mail Order Mystery was...
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Canada Post Labour Disruption
Read more →Mail Order Mystery is based in Canada and Canada Post (which operates Canada’s national mail system) is currently experiencing rotating strikes that began in four Canadian cities this morning. First the good news, if you live in the United States or outside of Canada we are able to ship from the US, directly with USPS. So there should be no delays with your mystery as a result of this labour disruption. If you’re in Canada, we've been through a postal strike before and we are keeping a close eye on the situation. Right now the mail is still moving as...
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Tell Me More About the Case of the Missing Bigfoot
Read more →Part of the experience of receiving a Mail Order Mystery is the thrill of rushing to the mailbox to see what curious letter, intriguing scrap of paper filled with ciphers or unusual object has arrived.But if you're sending someone a Mail Order Mystery, you may want to know what exactly they're going to be receiving. So we put together this mailing-by-mailing breakdown of what is in our newest mystery: The Case of the Missing Bigfoot. (Warning: Spoiler alert! Stop reading now if you want to be surprised along with the child you you're sending the mystery to.) An old mansion. A secret...
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Mystery Is All Around Us
Read more →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
Read more →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...