As nine-year-old Max and his favorite author, D.J. Lucas, exchange letters, the two writers help each other with their new books and develop a special friendship.
All the villagers are frightened when the giant postman comes thumping down the street to deliver the mail, but everything changes when Billy takes a letter of his own to the postman's house.
Although he wants to learn all that wise old Donkey knows, Rabbit cannot sit still to listen to the answers to his questions, but in the end he teaches Donkey some new things.
As Max--who is almost ten--and his favorite author, D.J. Lucas, exchange letters, the two writers help each other with their new books and develop a special friendship.