This Letter Says I Love You (PB)

Author: Handy, Matilda

Interest age: from c 3 years

Published on 8 May 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 32 pages
250 x 276 x 4 | 186g

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Inspired by 10-year-old Matilda Handy's memorial post

boxes, as featured on the BBC The One Show.

A heartfelt picture book about celebrating and remembering loved

ones.

Keep sharing the things that you wish you could say.

Our letters to loved ones will all find their way . . .

Matilda misses her grandma a lot and wishes she could talk to

her again. Some days she feels sad. And some days she remembers

all the happy memories they shared together.

But what if there was still a way to tell her grandma just how

much she loves her? After all, the ones we love are always

with us.

Based on a true story, this beautiful picture

book shows how we can stay connected to those we've lost by writing

them letters.

Matilda's idea of creating a post box to send letters to those

who have passed on has taken root across the country, and now children

and adults can post letters to their loved ones in one of

her special white post boxes.

Including a letter written by Matilda Handy, for her grandmother

Matilda's original postbox was set up in Gedling Crematorium

and over 40 more postboxes have now been introduced across the UK

With lyrical, hopeful text by Lucy Rowland

Sharon Rentta's heart-warming illustrations bring Matilda's story

to life

The perfect picture book to support children who have lost a

loved one