The Post Office wouldn’t likely let a five year old slip by today like they did in Mary’s case! Have the children try to fold up as flat as they can, so that you can put them in an envelope. A kerosene lantern, a horse-pulled wagon, the clothing worn by the characters.Īfter reading, ask the children if they thought they could travel by mail. While reading this story to young children, it is interesting to have them look for clues that tell them this story happened a long time ago. This true story is told in wonderful narrative fashion and with beautifully detailed watercolor illustrations in the book, Mailing May, written by Michael O. Soon her family hatched an ingenious plan and, with the help of a cousin who worked on the mail car of the train and some creative application of the postal code, May was sent by parcel post with 53 cents in stamps on her coat. Back in 1914, a five year-old little girl by the name of Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted desperately to visit her grandmother, but her parents couldn’t afford the $1.55 it would cost for a train ticket.
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