🦔 a little letter from a magical friend
A shy little hedgehog who lives in a hawthorn hedge — and writes to children every month.
✦ A letter · a hand-drawn picture · a little treasure · wax-sealed, every month
£14.99 / month · cancel anytimeor pay yearly — £160 (save £20 · perfect gift) · or 6 months — £74.95 (1 letter free 🎁)
✦ post from beyond the ordinary woods ✦
The woods are full of people you haven't met yet. Here's who Prickly writes home about.
The Squirrel
Busy, warm-hearted, and always gathering something. Portrait coming soon.
✦ a little game ✦
It's a rainy afternoon. What are you doing?
✦ write back ✦
Not a subscriber question, just a hello. I read every one.
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Hand-drawn, hand-packed, posted from London. Made by Emily, just like the original Dear Little Thing — but for little ones.
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Three letters. Three woodland adventures, leading all the way to Christmas Eve.
Sent together as one cosy package, so you can open and share them however and whenever suits your family this Christmas.
✦ what's inside ✦
A6 art print
A personalised letter
Stickers
A question for them
In this first letter, Prickly and his friends build a snowman together in the first proper snow of the year. Before it's finished, Prickly runs home for something of his own to keep it warm, and by the end, the snowman has a name.
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Get Prickly's Christmas Letters →A little handmade Christmas, posted straight to your door.
Letters won't be sent out until the end of October.
International orders may not arrive in time. I'll be in touch personally once your letters are on their way.
meet your child's new friend
Prickly is a shy hedgehog who lives in a hawthorn hedge. He's a bit nervous of new things, but he's been looking for someone to write to. Every month he sends a little letter — about his day, the small things he's noticed, and a story or two from the forest.
Prickly
the hedgehog
"Dear little friend... I've never written a letter before. But I thought I'd try."
what arrives in the post
Every month, hand-drawn and wax-sealed, addressed to your little one.
✨ original prickly prints
Hand-drawn original illustrations of Prickly's world. Printed on textured A5 art paper, signed by Emily. £20 each, posted from London.
Signed by Emily · posted from London 🌿
loved by little ones
"My daughter and I wrote our letter to the woodland one morning, and that same afternoon your reply arrived. She loved the stickers, and it felt so magical — by a lovely coincidence we'd just been having our own little tea party with her toys!"
— a happy mum
"My nephew lives several states away. He loves the new addition of Prickly and learning about his adventures — my sister sends me videos of how excited he is to check the mail."
— a DLT Kids aunt
"Before her letter had even arrived, we went to some nearby bushland and my daughter wrote her own letter to the forest. The next day, when the real one came, we had a little tea party of our own and placed it next to the teapot — she was thrilled, and went straight off to draw pictures back."
— a mum in Australia
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Leave a review →✦ this actually happened ✦
A mum wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter got her first letter from Prickly on a Sunday.
In the letter, Prickly had invited her to write back to him — to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.
That same Sunday morning, before the letter had even arrived, her daughter sat down and wrote her own letter to the woodland — thanking it for the trees, the plants, and the animals. They walked out to their garden, which backs onto real woodland, and posted it into the trees.
That afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The little girl had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals.
Prickly's letter was all about him having his first ever tea party, with a bee.
Neither of them knew what the other was doing.
Snail mail still does something nothing else can.
A note straight to Emily — I’d love to hear from you.
Thank you — your message is on its way. I’ll write back soon!
