![]() ![]() Observing the text and illustrations, what can students tell about the setting and when the event took place? When beginning with a historically based picture book, tell students that what they are reading is based on a real event. Introducing primary sources along with the picture book can give an idea of the scope of the event as well as reveal why the mail service was used in this way. While not widespread, the practice of mailing children, like in Mailing May, wasn’t entirely uncommon during a brief period in the 1910s. With train tickets being expensive, the parents instead entrust May to her uncle, a mail carrier, as they mail May to her grandmother. ![]() Based on a true story that took place in 1914, May wants to visit her grandmother. The daily visits reminded me of the book Mailing May by Michael O. As I’m home over the summer, I often see the mail carrier delivering the mail. ![]()
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