About the Book Beep, beep! Mail Ducks truck is full! Theres a triangle box to deliver. A circle. A heart. All his friends favourite shapes. Lift the flaps to reveal all the hidden surprises that add up to one big surprise for Mail Duck! Book Synopsis In Mail Duck: A Book of Shapes and Surprises , author-illustrator Erica Sirotich invites little readers to come along on Mail Ducks delivery route for a day full of lift-the-flap surprises in this fun interactive board book. Mail Duck is delivering differently shaped packages to all his friends on his mail route. (Trudy likes triangles, and Harry likes hearts!) Lift the flaps to peek inside and guess what each friend received. Then head back to the post office for a big surprise: a thank-you celebration for Mail Duck planned by all his pals using the various packages they received throughout the story! Sixteen flaps and a final double-gatefold spread give readers plenty of sweet and silly details to unpack in this charming board book. Sirotichs art steals the show, with smiling faces and hidden shapes throughout in gentle greens, cotton-candy pinks, and highly saturated blues. . . . Mail Duck delivers delight, and toddlers will clamor for more. -- Kirkus Review Review Quotes **STARRED REVIEW** Sirotichs art steals the show, with smiling faces and hidden shapes throughout in gentle greens, cotton-candy pinks, and highly saturated blues... Mail Duck delivers delight, and toddlers will clamor for more.-- Kirkus Review About the Author Erica Sirotich is an author-illustrator who regularly contributes illustrations and activities to kids magazines like Highlights , Ranger Rick Jr., and Boys Life , as well as Usborne activity books. Shes always loved receiving mail, and has been collecting postage stamps since she was a little girl. This gave her the inspiration to create Mail Duck ! She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her dogs, cats, and husband, Mike. Learn more at ericasirotich.com.