![]() ![]() Colorful, kid-friendly illustrations combine with Adler’s “expert mixtures of facts and personality” ( Booklist) to introduce young readers to history through compelling biographies of presidents, heroes, inventors, explorers, and adventurers. Young readers looking for insight into one of America's greatest founders, will find inspiration while gaining understanding and appreciation of US colonial history.įor almost thirty years, David Adler’s Picture Book Biography series has profiled famous people who changed the world. An energetic inventor and public servant, he created the Franklin stove and bifocal glasses and established the first lending library and hospital in America. Supported by colorful illustrations, Adler's biography brings to life one of America's founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin.Īdler highlights Franklin's stunning accomplishments and his day-to-day life from his time as a young boy in Boston, Massachusetts through his role as the oldest delegate to the Constitutional Congress at the age of 81.Ī lifelong book lover and printer, Franklin poularized famous sayings like "haste makes waste" and "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" in his annual Poor Richard's Almanack. ![]() Writer, printer, scientist, inventor, statesman, and youngest son in a family of seventeen children, Benjamin Franklin is considered one of our greatest Americans. ![]()
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