abspaintco Animal Print Club vs Letters From Francis

Where they differ

Both are stickers, letters and nature clubs. abspaintco Animal Print Club covers art & prints on top of that; Letters From Francis stays narrower.

Letters From Francis is the cheaper of the two — $7/mo plus postage against $8/mo, roughly 13% less on a monthly basis. Whether that gap means anything depends on what turns up: the dearer club is not automatically sending more, and on a gift the up-front total matters more than the monthly figure.

Shipping is the one that rules a club out rather than in: abspaintco Animal Print Club ships to Worldwide, Letters From Francis to Not stated.

What each one sends

abspaintco Animal Print Club

A 5x7 watercolor print of a different animal each month, a matching sticker and a short letter from the artist about that animal. New-subscriber cutoff is the 10th, with mail going out the 12th to 15th.

Letters From Francis

A hand-illustrated letter from a goat named Francis, who writes about animal friends he meets around the world, in a brightly colored envelope. Each letter includes a die-cut collectible animal sticker. Letters are billed and mailed around the 10th to 15th.

Which one to pick

We are not going to pretend there is a winner here — they are close enough to be on the same shortlist, which is why this page exists. What we would say is that the choice usually turns on the household rather than the club: how much adult time there is, whether the child reads independently yet, and whether you want post that asks something of them or post that simply arrives.

Read the full listings before deciding, and follow through to each club's own site — prices, terms and gift options are theirs to change and ours only to record.