The Wonder Book Letters

Do you have a child or a friend who would love to get personalized illuminated letters from an age long past every month, packed full of amazing art to color and beautiful items to collect from medieval manuscripts?

📬 A year-long exploration of medieval text art and wonders

📜 Historical fiction with educational elements drawn from actual people, settings, and texts from the 12th century.

🖌️ New craft inserts every month to color and collect

📚 Replica pages of real medieval texts

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How It Works

Subscribe to the Story

Sign up for the letters and provide the name and mailing address for the recipient. At the moment, these are only available domestically for US addresses. The letters are $12 a month, with postage included. You may cancel your subscription at any time.

Monthly Mailings

The letters mail out the second week of every month so you get them around mid-month. When you sign up, your story begins with the first letter, mailed to you the second week of the following month. The rest follow in sequence, every month, for the next eleven months.

Read and Be Inspired!

Enjoy the stories, read them to your young children, and watch their imaginations bring that world to life!

Color, Craft, and Create

Dive into a world of vibrant colors and designs as you collect new wonders from that magical age. Color in art, build a junk journal... there are so many options to unleash your artistic flair and transform your creations into keepsakes!

What Are The Letters?

The Wonder Book Letters tell an original story of young girl exploring the library at the convent of St. Hildegard of Bingen. Inspired by the wondrous books and by the wise abbess herself, the girl gathers and copies many different things from the books to make her own collection of wonders, which she shares with you every month along with her personalized illuminated letters!

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What You Get In Your Subscription

📖 A story children will love, told over 12 letters

📜 A real illuminated manuscript replica page in every letter

🔖 New craft items every month - art for coloring, stickers, illuminated riddles, bookmarks...

📚 Curated wonders from real medieval texts - bestiary creatures, Celtic knots, mythical maps... something new to discover every time!

👑 Enjoying the old-fashioned excitement of written correspondence and hand-made art you can hold and keep

A Beautiful World Of Wonders To Explore

Can you imagine what it would be like to be a child visiting the library and scriptorium of the abbey convent of St. Hildegard of Bingen? The air rich with the scent of oak-gall ink and soft vellum. Candlelight and gentle sunbeams make the pages glow like living jewels: real gold leaf sparkling brighter than stars, twisting vines blooming from grand initials, and colors crushed from precious stones turning letters into rainbows. Imagine spending happy hours perusing the illuminated manuscripts, marveling at saints and visions, mischievous dragons peeking from the margins, the lore of stars and plants, ancient riddles, mysterious maps of far-off lands, the glorious music of Abbess Hildegard... Surrounded by sacred books like this, alive with mystery and color, what else would you want to do but search them out to collect their treasures and make your own Wonder Book?

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Wholesome and Inspiring for Readers of all Ages

Whether you're an artistic seven-year-old, a medieval enthusiast twelve-year-old, or a hand-crafting fifty-year-old, these letters will delight and inspire you, and remind you to never stop learning and enjoying the wonders around you.

TAMBURN MANOR