The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves - Softcover

Gibbons, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064460290 ISBN 13: 9780064460293

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1986

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Orderly, brisk description of the way the post office moves the mail [from mail box pick-up to final delivery].... Informative and interestingly presented."--"Booklist"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, 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0064460290
• ISBN 13: 9780064460293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Gibbons Gail