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.

Author: Gail Gibbons
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 06/01/1986
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 8.71h x 6.86w x 0.13d
ISBN: 9780064460293
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7589 / Post Office Book


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/27/1987

About the Author
Gibbons, Gail: -

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.