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Gail Gibbons — Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award winner
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Gail Gibbons’s nonfiction picture book traces the journey of a letter after it is mailed. The route includes weighing, sorting, coding, and transport, with people and machines both involved in getting mail where it needs to go. Its subject turns an everyday action—dropping a letter in a mailbox—into a look at the connected tasks behind postal delivery. The book offers a clear introduction to how mail moves through the post office and onward to its destination.
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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.
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