Delivery

by Aaron Meshon

A grandmother goes to great lengths to send her grandson a care package in this heartwarming and playful picture book.

By truck…
by train…
by boat…
by rocket…
love can travel any road, ride any track, cross any ocean, and soar through any sky.

Award-winning author-illustrator Aaron Meshon’s tender, whimsical, and almost wordless story celebrates love that knows no bounds.

Genres: Picture Books, Transport, Love, Family, Childrens, Juvenile, Travel

48 pages, Hardcover

Published January 3, 2017

Reviews

[Dylan Teut · Rating 4 out of 5]

You get to the end and you smack your forehead. In a good way.

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute book that will introduce small children to logistics.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

A joy of a book in a well-designed package. Full of fun and surprise.

[Vernon Area Public Library KIDS · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grandma and Cat have a very special package to deliver. Follow community helpers as they hand off this VIP parcel by truck, tractor, tug boat, submarine, helicopter, train, sled, and even rocket ship! Emergent readers will love coming up with their own descriptive story to follow along with these fun, magical illustrations. This wordless picture book is recommended for preschool thru 1st grade. Reviewed by: Miss Alyson, Youth Services, Vernon Area Public Library

[Stacey Aisquith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cute picture book that can be very engaging for preschoolers. The illustrations are very engaging. This is a great picture book to read with a child who is still learning the words for the items in their world. Children can name the different modes of transportation, they can follow the maze-like zig-zags that the package takes through farms, cities, forests and oceans and they can follow the delivery heart as it gets colored in on its travels. There is a cute twist at the end in regards to the delivery's destination that will make kids of all ages giggle.
I don't usually bother with picture books with so few words, but the illustrations and concept are so engaging that it was easy to enjoy this book.

[Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you have a kid that is into things that go, this book will be a huge hit. Tracking a valentine's package from sender to recipient, lots of people pitch in to help, using cars and trains but also dog-sleds and rocket ships.

Actually has four words, but the real story is in the drawings. Make sure you catch all the hidden love messages and lots of visual puns.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sure, you have to suspend a lot of belief for nearly the whole story (including the fact that narwhals live in the north and penguins live in the south so they wouldn't be in the same area!), but I really like the illustration style and the story. The nearly wordless aspect works really well, too. It wouldn't flow as much if there were words to it.

[Christine Kallner · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is a little over the top, in a good way. Nearly the whole sequence of events is unbelievable, but it is a sweet (almost) wordless picture book nonetheless. My son particularly loved it because he recognizes so many of the illustrations (vehicles and animals mostly). A fun book for Valentines Day.

[Carol V · Rating 5 out of 5]

Want a refreshing, tasty read? Great for Grandparents' Day, Valentine's Day, or Any Day, for that matter! The illustrations look cartoonish. Bright and colorful. Great message. My 2 1/2 year old grandson LOVED this book. It speaks transportation and family love on its pages.

[Lindsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adorable. Wordless. Fun mazes in the illustrations. Loved the ending!

[Nikki Glassley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really have to wonder about the shrewdness of delivering a package by whale.

[Rosanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for those who enjoy picture books or have a children's program to run. The book doesn't has very little words, not more then 10 but the pictures tell the story.

[Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun nearly wordless book with a great punchline ending.

[Susan Schuler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clever!

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

A funny and imaginative take on delivery methods. Recommend for the trains, planes, and automobile junkies we all have in our preschool crowds.

[Jocelyn Brame · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent visual literacy book for pre-readers.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was cute. And fun. But I sure hope those cookies were still fresh by the time they reached their destination. Next door.

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a wonderful wordless journey of a package from grandmother to grandson. I loved how the colors made it easy to follow the package while also enjoying the landscape of each spread.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

PreS-K- The central premise of this near-wordless picture book, is that love is far-reaching because it is transported by many types of vehicles. In this case, these are literal vehicles, but in discussion, the term can easily be applied more liberally. The source, and beginning of the journey, is a grandmother who has baked heart-shaped cookies for her grandson. These she passes on to a courier, who passes them on to a farmer, and so on and so forth until they reach their destination. Whenever the cookies are placed on a new vehicle, the white coating obtains a red heart to symbolically remind readers that it is carrying precious cargo. Hearts will also trail those that produce some sort of visible exhaust. The journey itself is rather extreme, especially since the end pages reveal the destination was next door all along, but it does make a point, and children will enjoy seeing all the different vehicles. Meshon's naive style digital paintings are unremarkable, but his design choices (such as the white vehicles which pop out from the coloured backgrounds and characters) do facilitate the younger audience. VERDICT For those toddlers who are in love with cars, trains, ships, and other transportation methods, Delivery delivers...and it comes with a message of love too.

*reviewed for School Library Journal

[Alisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. The author clearly understand how much children love to follow lines in books and I gasped in delight when we got to the cityscape page. So so fun! Thought I’m sure not intentional, sometimes mail does go very far away to come very near, which wasn’t lost on me. Perhaps a different destination without the obvious “why didn’t she walk it over?” that my 6 year old asked at the end. NEVERTHELESS— so much to love in this book and I already requested others by the author from the library.

[Lynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

An imaginative although lengthy way to deliver a package, especially when we find out the recipient lives next door. Young readers may enjoy this just to see different modes of travel/transportation, and to see various parts of the world. I'm wondering how good the homemade cookies would be after they've traveled all around the world!
Bright colors, predominance of red hearts and the calendar leans toward Valentine's Day, but it could also be a birthday present.

[Margaret Boling · Rating 3 out of 5]

1/1/2018 ~~ Shrug ~ Grandma's lengths to deliver cookies to her grandson were over the top. I did enjoy seeing the illustrations of the Saturn 5 rocket, especially since I visited the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL this year.

Why I read this book: Listed as an honorable mention in the "Best Surprise" category - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summary: You mail a package. Where does it go?

Why I Read This: It was probably on a "best of" list, but I can't really remember.

Review: This was cute. I think that it would be really good for a toddler who likes vehicles without being a construction book. You follow a package from sending to delivery. I could see kids tracing their fingers over where the different vehicles go because of the interesting and well done illustrations.

[Meredith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always enjoy a (mostly) wordless picture book, but it's hard to know how to share one in storytime. This one worked very well, because with each new page, we tried to name what kind of transportation is being used to carry the cookies now. Also, the ending is hilarious (make sure you look at the inside cover at the back).

[Library Lady Terri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the journey of this care package. It went through a lot to be delivered with love. Each spread has so much going on that you could go back and read it over and over and spend so much time finding and talking about the things going on each time you turn the page.

[Athira (Reading on a Rainy Day) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a surprisingly good book. I say surprisingly because art the beginning, it felt a little weird - the structure, the flow. But as we (my kids and I) continued with it, we fell in love with the book. There was something to interact with or discuss about in each page, and the ending was nice.

This is a book of very few words. The pictures tell the story so my kids were curious about where it was leading and they tried to guess what next.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter had the exact same reaction to this story that I did...why did the grandmother send the package all over the world and to the moon and back when her grandson lived right next door?! I didn't love the illustrations. Not my style.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silent book. Cute story of a package as it goes around the world and gets delivered to its recipient.

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a cute (nearly) wordless pic book. A grandma (and kitty!) bake cookies for her grandson's birthday (we presume) and the cookies go on a LONG journey on many different forms of transportation.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Follow a package as it travels around the world and beyond in this no words picture book. one on one