Delivery
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and and Wade Zahares (Illustrator)
Booktalk: I was driving on the 405 freeway one day when I saw a car carrier truck loaded with new cars coming uphill in the slow lane through the Sepulveda Pass, and I realized–everything gets delivered–even cars!
As I drove through the city I saw trucks and trains, ships and planes–making deliveries. That’s where the idea for the 90-word picture book poem, Delivery, began.
Many drafts later, it was published as a picture book by Viking Children’s Books in 1999, but this poem kept making deliveries. Delivery came out again (with another publisher) as a PreK literacy program big book and audio-book. A third publisher used a printed and audio excerpt of Delivery in their first grade reading program.
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