Abe's Peanut is an original venture by two sisters who loved sending postcards as kids. Bringing together professional artists and storytellers, they create a different story each month told through four postcards. It's not cheap, but it is a super birthday gift, considering your child will receive a hand-addressed, gorgeously designed postcard about once a week.  And there are no batteries, no disks, no power cords. Just kids, reading, and art.

I'm imagining all the homeschool lessons or keepsake scrapbooks a crafty mom could devise out of this.

My daughter's jiujitsu academy sent her a birthday postcard, and she liked it so much that she sleeps with it under her pillow. I can't imagine how excited she would be to find Abe's Peanut postcards in the mail and get an original story along with that photo of a tiger in a birthday hat.~Delilah