The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves

by Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator)

Overview

Learn where our mail goes and how it gets there in this classic nonfiction picture book by Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award winner Gail Gibbons.

Do you ever mail a letter and wonder what happens to it after you drop it in the box?

Read all about the post office and learn how letters are weighed, sorted, transported, culled, canceled, coded, binned, boxed, and sorted once again.

Find out how people and machines work together to deliver the letters you send.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780064460293
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/01/1986
Series:	A Trophy Nonfiction Bk.
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	310,853
Product dimensions:	8.69(w) x 6.88(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Gail Gibbons, author of more than one hundred books, is the winner of the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children’s nonfiction literature. Called a “master of picture book nonfiction” by ALA Booklist, Ms. Gibbons has a special talent for making complex subjects understandable and entertaining for young readers.

Gail Gibbons, author of more than one hundred books, is the winner of the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children’s nonfiction literature. Called a “master of picture book nonfiction” by ALA Booklist, Ms. Gibbons has a special talent for making complex subjects understandable and entertaining for young readers.

Editorial Reviews

"Bright and cheerful. Stamp the book first class." — New York Times

"Another winner by Gail Gibbons." — School Library Journal

"Orderly, brisk description of the way the post office moves the mail. Informative and interestingly presented." — Booklist

From the Publisher

"Bright and cheerful. Stamp the book first class."

New York Times

"Orderly, brisk description of the way the post office moves the mail. Informative and interestingly presented."

Booklist

"Orderly, brisk description of the way the post office moves the mail. Informative and interestingly presented."

Booklist

Gibbons takes readers step-by-step through the mailing process,from the moment the letter is dropped into a mailbox until it reaches its final destination. She includes a glossary and a brief history of message-sending. (5-8)

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