| The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves Contributor(s): Gibbons, Gail (Author), Gibbons, Gail (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0064460290 ISBN-13: 9780064460293 Publisher: HarperCollins OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1986 Annotation: Do you ever mail a letter and wonder what happens to its 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - How Things Work | Are Made - Juvenile Nonfiction | Careers |
| Dewey: 383 |
| LCCN: 85045397 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 6.86" W x 8.71" (0.19 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 7589 Reading Level: 3.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |