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The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin
No one could have thought up a more amazing character than the living, breathing Benjamin Franklin. He was everything from a "soapmaker, candle dipper, and printer" to a "postmaster, political activist, community reformer, revolutionary, statesman, international diplomat, and first great citizen of a nation which he, as much or more than anyone, helped to cr...more
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
September 23rd 2008
by National Geographic Children's Books
(first published November 8th 2005)
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Ben Franklin did many great things for our country. Didn't know he started from such humble beginnings or that he had so much ... family drama, shall we say?
Kid appropriate. Only thing I would say is that there is an awful lot of text for a "picture book biography." One of those cases where the teacher would say "no, that's not long enough for your report" but the younger kids would get lost in all the words.
Loved the quote around the portrait on the openi...more
Kid appropriate. Only thing I would say is that there is an awful lot of text for a "picture book biography." One of those cases where the teacher would say "no, that's not long enough for your report" but the younger kids would get lost in all the words.
Loved the quote around the portrait on the openi...more
Super book written in an entertaining fashion with great illustrations. I would like to read all the biographies in this serie. On a whole it was a couple years above my young boys, but I still wanted to read it to the end myself.
Outstanding artwork! Tells a nice story of Ben Franklin's life. the end provides a very through timeline of his life.
This is my second favorite of all the covers she's done, and I also love the title page illustration. However, I was disappointed in the text. In places the wording seemed confusing, like she was trying too hard to condense a lot into a paragraph. On the other hand, the quotes along the bottom from his Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac, and other writings made me want to pick up those works and read them. Franklin is one of those people in history that I'd like to meet if only I had a ti...more
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