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The Little Green Envelope

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A little green envelope longs to go on a journey. Will it be chosen to deliver Olive's letter to her far-away friend?

Olive's friend has moved away, and Olive wishes she could visit her. A little green envelope, lost in the bottom of the desk drawer, knows how Olive feels. It, too, wants so much to travel, and imagines zipping up and down conveyer belts and bouncing along in a mail bag, on its way to deliver an important letter. An old postcard reassures that for every occasion, there is an envelope ... but it seems like it will never be the little green envelope's turn.

When Olive's grandpa suggests writing her friend a letter, the little green envelope hopes and hopes that it will be chosen to carry the letter to its destination — but will it be a perfect fit?

A diagram on the endpapers shows how readers can create their own little green envelopes!

 

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Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6

With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

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    • Kirkus

      June 15, 2023
      When a child's friend moves away, an eager envelope gets the opportunity to embark on a journey. Olive Zhi, a pale girl with dot eyes and black hair tied into two blunt pigtails, is not her cheery self when she visits Grandpa (also pale with dot eyes) one day. Her friend has moved, so Grandpa suggests sending a letter. Cut-paper illustrations in a natural pastel palette aptly highlight the real hero of this story: a green envelope who overhears their conversation from a desk drawer. This envelope, differentiated by two googly eyes on its flap side (allowing the flap's lines to create wonderfully expressive faces), dreams of traveling to faraway places like other envelopes. After a moment of suspense, it is indeed chosen to accompany Olive's letter to her friend. This sets off a montage of the letter's travels, incorporating the clever use of paper products to create images of a mailbox, many hands of various shades, a mail truck, and a carrier's bag. There are no facts about how the postal service works--the emphasis here is on how delighted the recipient is to see the envelope once it arrives. Future correspondence is sure to come. The book ends with a diagram for making your own envelope. Olive is cued as Chinese. (This book was reviewed digitally.) A sweet and straightforward homage to old-fashioned letter writing. (Picture book. 4-8)

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