While working on this book, Craig Brown traveled to the Grand Canyon to observe the only mule train delivery route in the United States. Mule Train Mail introduces readers to Anthony Paya, who wears a cowboy hat, chaps, and spurs, and leads a train of mules on a daily three-hour trek down into the Grand Canyon to bring mail to the townspeople of Supai. A portion of the sales will be donated to the Havasupai Head Start program to help children in Supai...

An Amish community gathers to erect a barn in one day, and finishes in time for the owner's cows to be milked there that very evening.

A farmer uses his tractor to prepare the soil, plant seeds, harvest corn, and haul it away to be sold. Depicts the machinery which the tractor pulls: the manure spreader, the plow, the disc, the harrow, the planter, the picker, and the cultivator.

Describes how grapes become raisins, who introduced the seedless grape, and the many uses for this fruit over the centuries.

Relates how Thunderspirit, a very small and timid ghost, manages to rescue his friend Nanabee the sheep from the zoo.