Gledhill, Carly. Pass the Parcel. Carly Gledhill, Illus. Post Wave, 02/2026. [32]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 979-8-8950-9039-8. GRADES Preschool–1. ADDITIONAL.
Follow Parcel’s postal journey across the country and around the world, with many animal postal workers passing Parcel along, through the many forms of transportation that mail may utilize. Digital Adobe Photoshop illustrations depict the brightly colored animals as they pass Parcel, a box wrapped in brown paper and string, between mail workers, who use primary-colored vehicles to travel from place to place. The final recipient and the contents, revealed on a fold-out page, are likely to surprise and amuse readers. Although the story and illustrations do not depict a specific mail system, the concept of packages traversing long distances is likely to resonate with today’s young readers, who see packages arriving at home all the time—instead of the letters which traversed the world in the past.
Joshua Rees—Daly City Public Library