The Post Office Book - Mail and How It Moves

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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Gibbons
• Assisted by: Gail Gibbons (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1986
• EAN: 9780064460293
• ISBN: 978-0-06-446029-3
• No. of pages: 32
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; JUVENILE NONFICTION: Activity Books / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Technology / How Things Work-Are Made, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Technology / Inventions, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / United States / State & Local, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Mathematics / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Careers, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Transportation / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Social Science / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Places / United States