Are you ready to hear his story?

This one's about a little boy who loves checking letterbox for mail.

But he gets his mail in a very interesting way.

Charlie's Letterbox, written by Jess Judd.

Charlie loved checking the letterbox for mail.

He would run out to check it every day.

Sometimes he would see the mailman out of the window and he would rush outside to say hello

and thank him for delivering the mail.

At his old house, Charlie had had a lot of mail.

There were boring white envelopes that came that his mum and dad would put into the box

marked bills on the kitchen bench.

There were big yellow envelopes that came for his brother who would rip them open and

sit on the couch, reading the comics that came inside them.

There were birthday party invitations from the children in his class.

These would arrive in envelopes of electric blue, hot pink and deep green.

Once, there had even been an envelope of shimmering gold that arrived with an invitation to his

grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary.

However, a few months ago, Charlie and his family had moved house.

Now, they hardly got any mail at all.

The bills came on the computer, so no white envelopes in the letterbox.

His brother had bought himself a tablet and read all of his comics online, so no big yellow

envelopes in the letterbox.

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