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Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It's a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible train comes roaring through Suzy's living room, her world turns upside down. After sneaking on board, Suzy suddenly finds herself Deputy Post Master aboard the train, and faced with her first delivery-to the evil Lady Crepuscula. Then, the package itself begs...
5) Off & away
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jo fears what lives in the ocean but when her father is too ill to deliver messages in bottles, she courageously takes on the job, making new friends along the way.
6) Send it!
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe a package as it makes its way across country, from the time it is wrapped and addressed until it is delivered and opened.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Description
A tour of the busy work that takes place at post offices is depicted through the journey of a lost package that receives a little help reaching its destination, proving that distance cannot keep loved ones apart.
8) Snail mail
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A long, long time ago, before email and texting, the mail was delivered in a much slower way-it was called Snail Mail (because some thought it was delivered by a snail). Although it took much longer, everyone agreed that letters were a little more special when they were delivered by Snail Mail. They might be handwritten. They might include a drawing. They might even contain a surprise inside! One such letter was sent by a Girl to the Boy she loved,...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Description
"Bianca likes sending letters. Bianca likes stamps, too, and she collects them. She likes drawing and writing and dogs and watering her plants. But she does not like Yolanda who works at the post office. Will Yolanda ruin Bianca's Five-Letter Day? Or will Bianca find a way to solve her Yolanda problem?" -- Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Kalandraka
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
"La historia de cómo el pequeño oso y el pequeño tigre inventaron el correo postal, el correo aéreo y el teléfono." --From publisher's description.
The story of how the little bear and the little tiger invented mail, airmail, and the telephone.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Suzy Smith and her friends have gathered again for the re-launch of The Impossible Postal Express. The celebrations don't last long though, before Trollville is rocked by a violent tremor-one of a series growing more powerful by the day. It's clear something sinister is underfoot. Nevertheless Suzy's got a long overdue package that the Express must deliver, and it may just lead her to some answers. --from Amazon.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the Impossible Postal Express is charged with returning an overdue library book, Suzy Smith looks forward to a nice, simple delivery--just the thing she needs to convince her anxious parents to let her keep her job on the train. So shes less than thrilled to discover that not only is the book alive, it's full of a growing and dangerous magic. Worse still, the world to which it belongs is missing, and Suzy and her friends will have to use all...
Author
Publisher
Museyon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Milk is the polar bear postmaster of the forest. One day he receives a card that says "Please help!" It is from a red-crested crane couple whose chick has gone missing. Spring gives way to summer and Milk receives another post card--this time from a red-crested crane couple who live in another district telling him that they have been taking care of a lost crane chick and asking for help in finding its family.--Publisher.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
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