MAGICAL STORY LETTERS FOR CHILDREN, ROOTED IN NATURE AND PRESENCE
Slow mail delivered monthly
Stories of belonging, wonder, and a gentler rhythm of childhood
Otto & Bear’s Letters are a year-long collection of illustrated story letters that follow Otto, a large jungle cat, and Bear, a young boy, through Earth-led adventures that invite wonder, imagination, and a quiet sense of belonging.
Inspired by real travels across Thailand, Costa Rica, and Peru, these stories offer children a grounding return to presence, a felt connection to the living world, to themselves, and to the slower rhythms where childhood can unfold gently.
LETTERS THAT SLOW CHILDHOOD DOWN
In a world that moves quickly and feels increasingly digital, Otto & Bear’s Letters bring children back to something real - paper, story, nature, and a quiet monthly pause.
Childhood moves differently when something arrives slowly.
These monthly nature-based story letters for children offer something rare: a tactile experience that brings children back into their bodies, their imagination, and the living world around them.
Each month, a letter arrives and the day softens, attention gathers, breath eases and time widens, like quiet light through trees.
The letters guide children into a gentle rhythm, a slow-unfolding adventure through forests, jungles, mountains, and night skies, where wonder naturally returns and the world feels alive again.
With every letter, children deepen into belonging, curiosity, and the quiet magic of being held by something beautifully unhurried.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Twelve Story-Letters, Unfolding Slowly
Over the course of a year, your child receives 12 illustrated letters.
Each monthly letter deepens their journey and invites your child into a gentler
rhythm of imagination, connection and slow childhood.
Illustrated Pages to Hold, Keep & Return To
Most letters arrive as two double-sided pages (four illustrated pages).
A few, by the nature of the story, arrive as one double-sided page.
All are printed on FSC-certified paper with a soft, tactile feel -
made to be held, kept, and reread as the year unfolds.
Three Additional Letters
Three quiet story-letters appear in their own time, arriving when the story calls.
• Otto’s Story, with Letter One.
• A Soft Meditation, with Letter Six.
• A Closing Turning, with Letter Twelve.
HOW THE LETTERS WORK
A gentle rhythm, unfolding slowly
CHOOSE YOUR JOURNEY
Choose the subscription that fits your family. Each path begins with the same quiet magic - a story opening slowly, month by month, just for them.
A LETTER ARRIVES EACH MONTH
Beautifully illustrated and printed on thick tactile paper, each letter arrives addressed to your child, creating a small monthly moment of anticipation and wonder.
A QUIET MOMENT BECOMES THEIRS
They open their letter slowly, settle into the story, and return to a gentler rhythm held by nature, imagination and the quiet magic of slow childhood.
BEGIN THE JOURNEY
MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
£9 / month
A gentle monthly rhythm: one illustrated story-letter delivered slowly by post, inviting presence, imagination, and wonder.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION
£97 billed once
A full year of story-letters, unfolding month by month - a beautiful slow story that grows with your child.
GIFT SUBSCRIPTION
£97 billed once
A meaningful, beautifully unhurried gift - story-letters arriving through the post, creating small moments of magic all year long.
PREFER DIGITAL LETTERS?
Loved by homeschooling, nature-led and worldschooling families who want gentle monthly rhythms wherever they are in the world.
Both paths lead into the same year-long journey of illustrated letters, each one created to be held, kept, and opened slowly