Mailing May / Michael O. Tunnell ; illustrated by Ted Rand.
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TextPublication details: New York : Greenwillow Books, c1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cmISBN: - 0688128785 (trade)
- 0688128793 (lib.)
- [E] 20
- PZ7.T825 Mai 1997
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Historical Events | Tunnell, Michael O | Available | 33111002849087 |
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Nowadays it's no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay.
Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her won spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail.Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay. Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her own spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail.A Greenwillow/Tambourine Book
00-01 CA Young Reader Medal Masterlist, 2000-2001 Georgia's Picture Storybook Award & Georgia's Children's Book Award Masterlist, and 01 Colorado Children's Book Award (Pic. Bk Cat.)
"A Tambourine book."
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.