A Book about the Post Office

My son Froot Loop just LOVES the post office. Before he started pre-k 2 years ago, he walked with me every day to get the mail. Now, we often walk to the post office after school before going home. 

This Post Office book does a great job showing how the post office works. He even brought it to the post office with him one day, much to the delight of our office post office ladies. 

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.

Gibbons takes readers step-by-step through the mailing process,from the moment the letter is dropped into a mailbox until it reaches its final destination. She includes a glossary and a brief history of message-sending. 

The book really does a great job of covering everything from the initial dropping off of the letter to getting it to its final destination. 

Now that Froot Loop is a voracious reader, he can actually sit and read this book by himself, and he often does so. One day, I found him and Cocoa Puff on the couch reading it together… well, Froot Loop was reading it to Cocoa Puff while Cocoa Puff was babbling about the pictures. I loved it. 

This book would be great for preschools or elementary classrooms or homeschools, especially during a “community helper” unit. 

How often do you send mail?