The Cover Story
One child’s piece leads the issue, with a byline and age — like a real magazine.
A weekly magazine · Ages 3–12
Their imagination.In print.
Weekly Publishing for Growing Storytellers
Stories, drawings and wonderfully big ideas from children, made into a magazine and delivered to your door.
$40 /month · Billed quarterly ($120)
One magazine every week. Initial 3-month commitment.
Parents submit the work.Human editors prepare it.Children read it on paper.
Meet the magazine
A real issue. In little hands.
Compact enough for the mailbox, substantial enough to feel special. Every issue is made to be opened, read and kept.
Find your child’s editionFrom the pages
A little look inside.
Stories from the Postbox
Short fiction, poems, jokes and observations from the children who contributed.
The Gallery
A full-bleed centre spread of artwork, printed at scale on heavy matte paper.
Prompts & Margins
A writing prompt, a drawing challenge and blank margins meant to be drawn on.
The Letters Page
A short editorial note inviting the next story, poem, comic or drawing.
16 digest-size pages. Saddle-stitched and made to keep.
How it works
The weekly ritual is simple.
Parents send in the stories and drawings. Editors shape each weekly issue for print. Children stay offline and wait for a real magazine to arrive in the post.
Parents submit the work.
Stories, drawings, poems, comics, captions, and dictated ideas come through a parent-controlled submission process. Children never need an account or a feed.
Editors prepare the magazine.
We retain your child's own printing and creative voice. We may help adjust spacing, text size, and page fit, but to your child it should still look like their own writing on the page. Every piece is reviewed before it goes to print.
Issues are printed and mailed.
Each weekly edition is designed as a keepsake: compact, tactile, and made for the mailbox instead of the screen.
Your child gets published.
Subscribers' children appear in print at least twice a year, with one mailed issue each week creating a weekly ritual.
Why offline
Made for paper. Made for childhood.
No child accounts. No social feeds. No likes.
Just the pleasure of making something and seeing it in print.
An anti-social magazine, on purpose.
Children’s creativity doesn’t need a feed, a like count or a public profile. Postbox Tales is built around parent-controlled privacy and COPPA-aware safeguards. There are no comments or algorithmic rankings to chase; the audience is the other families who subscribe.
What takes their place is a piece of paper, a name in print and the small thrill of a magazine arriving in the post.
“We wanted our daughter to feel like a writer, not a content creator.”— the brief we wrote for our family
Human editors, every issue. Printed, posted, kept.
Two editions. Same mailbox magic.
A magazine to grow with.
Choose the edition that fits your child. There’s room for every kind of storyteller.
Ages 3–7
Little Postbox
First drawings, dictated tales
and very big ideas.
$40 / month
$120 billed quarterly
- One printed magazine every week
- Parent or child written — you choose
- Drawings, captions, tiny poems and first words
- Human editorial review before printing
Ages 8–12
Postbox Tales
Stories, poems, comics
and worlds of their own.
$40 / month
$120 billed quarterly
- One printed magazine every week
- For growing writers and illustrators
- Stories, comics, maps, poems and letters
- Their handwriting preserved, with help for legibility
- Human editorial review before printing
A place for their work. Both editions include at least two personalized print appearances each year in copies made for your family, including one in the first three months. Pieces may also be selected for the regular magazine.
Initial three-month commitment. Cancel any time after that. Extra keepsake copies: $25 each.
Now taking family inquiries
Make room on the bookshelf.
Postbox Tales began as a small garage-run print and packing operation. We’re expanding into a larger print and fulfilment setup so we can welcome more families properly.
Our next subscriber batch is planned for December 1. We’re opening spots carefully so every child receives the experience we promised.
Tell us a little about your family. After signing up, download the free Creator Pages packet for stories, drawings, comics and ideas to try at home.
