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Title: Toddlecreek Post Office by Uri Shulevitz ISBN: 0-374-37635-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $14.95

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Summary: Toddlecreek Post Office
Comment: Toddlecreek Post Office opens as a pleasant read with beautiful illustrations (bravo) and quirky, likeable characters. However, that takes a turn when the author *seems* to send a political message to young readers (i.e.: that the government (signified by the postal inspector) is "bad" and is to blame when it faces a grim reality in a small-town community). The government is placed in a negative light -- literally -- when the postal inspector arrives, and that attitude continues to the end of the book.
Shulevitz'purpose may have been to depict what small-town life consisted of in the past and how life has changed over time. It could have ended differently. I was left feeling disappointed -- not so much at what sad event ultimately happened in the plot, but rather in how the content (plot) was designed.