num_pages: 40
description: Sadie is on her way to deliver an elephant to her Great-Aunt Josephine who lives completely alone and can really use the company. She tries everything from mailing the elephant to boarding a plane a train and an alligator to get to her aunt's home. Along the way she meets an array of interesting characters including an odd postal worker and a gang of bandit monkeys who all help her get where she is going. This eccentric and hilarious story from Philip C. Stead the author of the Caldecott-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee and illustrator Matthew Cordell will surprise and entertain from beginning to end.
language: English
title: Special Delivery
publisher: Roaring Brook Press