Delivery - Softcover

Suen, Anastasia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142300039 ISBN 13: 9780142300039

Publisher: Puffin, 2001

Synopsis

Simple, rhyming text and bold graphics show the many deliveries that are made in one day, including newpapers to front porches, boxes of goods to stores, and people in planes to faraway places. Reprint.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

Accompanied by illustrations fittingly charged with movement, minimal couplets tell the story of how a day's-worth of goods are conveyed to their various destinations. After the stacking of newspapers, the news vans push off into the pre-dawn, while Suen (Baby Born, 1998, etc.) works other deliveries into the picture as the day progresses: canned goods, boxes, flowers. The text never exceeds 10 words per page, and is gauged to the youngest listener: ``On its way,/a new day,'' and ``Wheels and wings/carry many things.'' Larger distribution networks are developedhighway arteries, flyways, rail lines, and shipping lanesuntil Suen closes the circle with the piping of oil into the city. Zahares elegantly links every pastel-rich illustration to the next, back and forth through space and time and perspectives, until readers are once again at the morning gas pumpthe end of the line for the city's petroleum webwith the newspaper delivery man and the sun just cracking the horizon. Both text and art have a pleasing circularity that corrals the rhythms of the day so that they can be appreciated anew. (Picture book. 3-8) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Booklist:

Using a simple rhyming text and bold graphics, this book, by the author and illustrator who produced Window Music (1998), offers youngsters an introduction to the many kinds of deliveries that take place within a day. Beginning with the morning newspaper (transported by truck and bicycle), the book depicts deliveries of boxes, cans, and plants to groceries, department stores, and floral shops, and shows a myriad of delivery vehicles, including taxis, airplanes, trains, boats, and even pipelines. The pipes connect to tanks, which, in turn, carry the gasoline used to fuel the trucks that deliver the morning news. The text is succinct enough for even fidgety toddlers, but it will probably be the vivid artwork that commands the most attention. Each double-page spread is a visual delight, complete with its own back story, and Zahares' effective use of simple lines ensures that the pages never appear cluttered. A good choice for preschool story hours or for primary units on communities or transportation. Kay Weisman

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0142300039
• ISBN 13: 9780142300039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Zahares Wade