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Hoâs moving story uses less than 200 wordsâincluding part of the USPS motto, âneither snow,/ nor rain,/ nor heat,/ nor gloom of nightââto trace a packageâs journey across the United States. But the pictures depict far more than its trip: a parent and childâs drive across the variable U.S. landscape, a long-distance relationship, and budding new friendships. Opening with a tan-skinned child in New York City carefully packing a box and taking it to the post office, the book devotes several spreads to detailing the postal processes the box undergoes before accidentally flying off a mail truck en route to the airport. It is found by a Black child and parent who, serendipitously, soon move to San Francisco, the packageâs destination. The richness of the tale lies in subtly textured watercolor illustrations by Lanan (