a children's book explaining how the post office works

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Product Description

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.

Children's Books of 1982 (Library of Congress)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #253437 in Books
• Published on: 1986-05-23
• Released on: 1986-05-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780064460293
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
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.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"Another winner by Gail Gibbons." -- --School Library Journal

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

About the Author
Gail Gibbons, "a master of children's non-fiction" (ALA Booklist), has created over one hundred entertaining, eye-catching books that explain how things work.She lives in Corinth, Vermont. In Her Own Words...

"I was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1944. Even as a little child, I was always busy putting books together. Sometimes I would bind them with yarn to hold the pages together I've always loved drawing and painting. I was also a very curious child. My parents tell me that I was always asking lots and lots of questions.

"Later, I went to the University of Illinois, where I studied graphic design. Then I moved to New York City, where I got a job doing artwork for television shows. Eventually I was asked to do the artwork for a children's show. While doing that show, some of the children asked me if I had ever thought of doing children's books. My mind immediately recalled how much I enjoyed doing that type of thing when I was a child d. So I put an idea for a book together and right away a publisher bought it. That book was called Willy and His Wheel Wagon.

"Since then, over seventy books that I have written and illustrated have been published. The type of books I write are nonfiction books. This is because I love researching so much. I get to ask lots of questions, just like when I was a kid. I also get to travel and meet lots of interesting people. While doing research for my book Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests, I traveled to two islands where there are tropical rain forests, Saba and Dominica. I also had a great time writing and illustrating the book. I get a lot of pleasure from doing the type of work I do.

"Most of the time I live in Corinth, Vermont, in the middle of three hundred acres. I live with my husband, Kent Ancliffe, and our dog, Wilton. We also have three cats. My life in Vermont is very secluded. There are lots of wild animals that live on our property. We also spend a lot of time on an island off the coast of Maine where we have a little farmhouse. In fact, my book Christmas on an Island is about Christmas on this island.

"I have many hobbies, like swimming and boating, but my favorites are reading and creating books."

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Customer Reviews

great for introducing unit on how the mail works
This book was great in introducing a unit on how the mail works to my second grade class. I would definitely recommend it!!

Good Book for Learning About the Post Office
This is a great book about the post office and how mail is sent. The book is very comprehensible and understandable to most students. Very informative without being dense.

The Post Office Book: Mail and How it Moves
ISBN 0690041985 - Printed in the United States of America. Simple non-fiction books for young children are books that I always like to find. This one is slightly outdated, but not outdated enough for it to be useless yet.

The workings of the Post Office is explained in some detail. From how postage is calculated to how the Post Office sorts and transports mail within the U.S. and even how it is transported to be taken overseas, every step from the hand of the sender to the hand of the recipient is covered. The last page has some interesting trivia about mail.

When I first flipped through the book, I had the impression that it was older than it is, partly because of the illustrations. The images are only red, blue, grays and white, a lack of variety of color that I usually find in books from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The text, by Gail Gibbons, is simple and easy to follow, although probably dated enough to be incorrect on some points. That said, I don't think those points matter too much in a book for young children, because the primary points haven't changed. This would be a good book for a classroom or homeschooling family... or for your budding mail carrier.

- AnnaLovesBooks