These may be somewhat rare to the Fraggle Rock collector and perhaps somewhat undesirable depending on one's tastes. When you subscribed to Weekly Reader's Fraggle Rock book series, not only did you get the books and the free gifts, but you also received some fancy Fraggle Rock shipping boxes and wrappings.

With the first shipment of books the subscribers also received their free gifts being a record, tote bag and possibly a T-shirt depending on the offer. The box for this was larger to accommodate all of these items. This box was printed on two sides in two colors. The address side shows Red Fraggle peeking over a rock with the phrase "Look inside for your free gifts". On the reverse side you get a nice little scene of the Fraggles (minus Wembley) listening to Gobo reading from a book (maybe his postcard scrapbook).

Once the initial shipment is sent and the subscriber chooses to continue, two more Fraggle books were shipped in a smaller package with the same image of the peeking Red Fraggle. This same package design would be use on the remainder of the subscription.

Another form of packaging for the Weekly Reader books was a foldable corrugated cardboard wrapper printed in black with a green logo and loaded with images of dancing and playing Fraggles. This was probably shipped inside of a larger box because it seems too fragile to be sent on it's own through the mail. It would be like wrapping paper made of cardboard. This may have been used inside the first package sent to keep the free gifts secured.

It's nice to have things like these in one's Fraggle Rock collection because probably 9.99 times out of 10 these would be thrown away making them rather difficult to come by.

Muppet Press Paperbacks (1985)