Customer Reviews

The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves

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This book was great in introducing a unit on how the mail works to my second grade class. I would definitely recommend it!!

This is a great book about the post office and how mail is sent. The book is very comprehensible and understandable to most students. Very informative without being dense.

Great explanation text for younger students. Even though US based still valid to use in Aus.

ISBN 0690041985 - Printed in the United States of America. Simple non-fiction books for young children are books that I always like to find. This one is slightly outdated, but not outdated enough for it to be useless yet.

The workings of the Post Office is explained in some detail. From how postage is calculated to how the Post Office sorts and transports mail within the U.S. and even how it is transported to be taken overseas, every step from the hand of the sender to the hand of the recipient is covered. The last page has some interesting trivia about mail.

When I first flipped through the book, I had the impression that it was older than it is, partly because of the illustrations. The images are only red, blue, grays and white, a lack of variety of color that I usually find in books from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The text, by Gail Gibbons, is simple and easy to follow, although probably dated enough to be incorrect on some points. That said, I don't think those points matter too much in a book for young children, because the primary points haven't changed. This would be a good book for a classroom or homeschooling family... or for your budding mail carrier.

- AnnaLovesBooks

The title of the book pretty much says it all. The book does a good job at explaining the process of mail and how it gets delivered to different places. I actually enjoyed the illustrations, although simple, I can see the details of the background (the boxes, stamps, names on envelopes, etc.) I actually learned a lot from this book! I find it very appropriate for children to read as an introduction to the way our postal service works.

This book is very basic. I needed a book for a post office theme and this was boring to read aloud and redundant (not repetitive). Could have been written better.