The Lost Package
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Children's Book of 2021
A Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2021
From author Richard Ho and illustrator Jessica Lanan, the heartwarming story of a package that gets lost, then found, and an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at what happens at the post office.
Like other packages, this one began as an empty box. It was packed with great care, sealed tight, and given a personal touch.
Like other packages, it left the post office with hope. But unlike most packages, before it got to its destination...
it
got
lost.
Follow one package that loses its way and discover a friendship tale that proves distance can't always keep us apart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ho's moving story uses less than 200 words—including part of the USPS motto, "neither snow,/ nor rain,/ nor heat,/ nor gloom of night"—to trace a package's journey across the United States. But the pictures depict far more than its trip: a parent and child's drive across the variable U.S. landscape, a long-distance relationship, and budding new friendships. Opening with a tan-skinned child in New York City carefully packing a box and taking it to the post office, the book devotes several spreads to detailing the postal processes the box undergoes before accidentally flying off a mail truck en route to the airport. It is found by a Black child and parent who, serendipitously, soon move to San Francisco, the package's destination. The richness of the tale lies in subtly textured watercolor illustrations by Lanan (The Fisherman & the Whale), which poignantly portray a broad range of settings, from gritty urban streets shimmering with rain to snow-swept terrains to a desolate gas station. An end note by Ho (Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars) contextualizes this homage to the USPS, where his immigrant father worked for more than 30 years, and urges readers to support the now-struggling agency. Ages 3–6. Author's agent: Emily Mitchell, Wernick & Pratt. Illustrator's agent: Ed Maxwell, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc.
