Franklin is a great character for children. He is a good friend and son, but struggles with the issues that get to kids everywhere -- shyness, patience, etc.

This activity book contains 30 stickers that can be used (and reused) on the book's end pages, which depict a beach and a beach picnic scene. Activities include sorting, a maze, word search, spot the difference, connect the dots, picture search, word scramble, coloring and a secret code. There's even a recipe for juice pops. The book finishes with an answer page.

This will be a help to you when you are travelling with little Franklin or puzzle book fans.

A Franklin le gusta jugar futbol. ¿Pero porqué su equipo nunca ha ganado un partido? En este libro entretenido, Franklin aprende que para poder ganar, su equipo tiene que trabajar juntos. Yo le leo este libro a mis hermanitos, y a ellos les encanta. Yo recomiendo este libro para todos los niños de 3 a 7 años.

Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright is an enlightening book. The author gives the reader a good look into the life of Franklin.

The book is most delightful in and of itself of one of the best loved of the Founding Fathers. We delve into the mind of Franklin and we see him as a printer, author, businessman, philospher, and of course a crafty politician. He was a reluctant revolutionary, but Franklin was more, as we read in the book.

A man many thought as brilliant for his time, Franklin was devious and a man of charm. We see the multi-faceted Franklin in his true light. A man who loved attention and knew how to obtain it.

Franklin lived for 84 years through one of the most turbulent times in American History. He genious transcended to inventions to worldly wisdom... all caught poignantly in the book. I enjoyed reading this book because Franklin has been always one of most original of the Founding Fathers. As Thomas Jeferson said upon following Franklin in France... He could not replace Dr. Franklin, he was only his successor.

This book is well documented and comprehensive with good prose and flowing narative.

This book was enjoyable... I recommend it

This book is full of tattoo nostalgia. Paul Rogers is truly the father of American tattooing. I recommend that every tattoo artist and tattoo collector read this book to get a better understanding of where we are comming from.

The volumes in the Encyclopedia of Presidents series always begin in media res, with the defining moment of that particular president. In the case of Franklin Pierce it is significant that his shining moment is when he delivers his inaugural address from memory. But even that moment was shrouded in a sense of gloom and doom; between the election and the inaugural Pierce's third and last surviving child was killed in a railroad accident and his wife, Jane, believed this tragedy was a penalty for having agreed to run. Even though he was the youngest President up to that time, at age 48, it had been a decade since he had held political office. Pierce had been nominated for the White House by the Democrats after 49 ballots, as a compromise "dark horse" candidate over James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglas, and William Marcy. As a northerner who accepted slavery, he was acceptable to the South and for that reason easily defeated Whig candidate General Winfield Scott, hero of the Mexican War and Pierce's superior in the Army. This alone should show young readers that in the decade before the outbreak of the Mexican War the only issue that mattered in national politics was the devisive one of slavery.

The most impressive aspect of this juvenile biography of Franklin Pierce by Charnan Simon is that the story being told remains interesting even though the subject is a weak man who accomplishes virtually nothing in the White House. The best you can say for Pierce, which is Simon's position, is that his stand in support of slavery was based on principle: since slavery was protected by the Constitution and since Pierce was a public servant whose duty was to uphold the Constitution, he was therefore required to protect slavery. However, even young readers today are going to recognize that the immorality of slavery speaks to a higher principle. The result is that Pierce is considered one of the weakest Presidents ever (on everybody's list of the bottom five) and died a miserable man, considered a traitor by many. To be fair there is nothing that any political leader could have done to avoid the coming War and there is something to be said for the fact that the wasted presidency of Pierce did postpone the armed conflict until Abraham Lincoln was in a position to win the White House (I can make a compelling argument that Lincoln was the ONLY politician in the country who could have preserved the Union).

Ultimately this book is more about the times in which Pierce lived then a biography of his personal life and political career. Pierce was a spectator for the pivotal events of that four-year period, such as "Bleeding Kansas." Even the success of the diplomatic mission to open Japan to Western trade was started by his predecessor. However, Simon does use the perspective of the Pierce presidency to cover the key events and personalities of this period. The book is illustration with black & white illustrations, mostly early photographs from that period, as well as etchings and a series of about a dozen very informative political cartoons. It is hard to have much respect for Pierce after reading any book about him, but Simon does an excellent job of providing information that makes it perfectly clear why he deserves his reputation as one of the worst American Presidents. As the antithesis of our greatest President, Lincoln, Pierce can in fact be considered our worst chief executive.

The Profiles of the Presidents series is establishing itself as the first place young readers should turn for information about the Presidents. As is usually the case with any juvenile biography about a President, the less you know about that particular President the more impressive you will find the volume to be (it is hard just to cover the basics about Abraham Lincoln or F.D.R. in this small of a book). Such is the case with Barbara Somervill's look at Franklin Pierce. Somervill begins her book with the obvious question, Franklin Who? After all, his opponent, Mexican War hero General Winfield Scott is still better known today that Pierce, who was nominated on the 49th ballot by the Democrats in 1852. More importantly, before she even begins the story of Pierce's life and political career, Somervill establishes that he was not up to the office and is one of the five worst presidents in the nation's history.

The rest of this book looks at how Pierce went from a student, lawyer, and politician in New Hampshire to his service in the Mexican War, ironically, under Scott. Pierce was chosen to run because he was a northerner who favored slavery, which certainly makes it clear how that issue was coming to a head during the final decade before the Civil War; he had been a Senator before the Mexican War, which shows how desperate the Democrats were to find a "dough faced" nominee. The story of Pierce's one term in the White House is essentially that of a series of tragic deaths in his family and administration and a complete lack of political success either at home or abroad. After leaving office Pierce began drinking heavily until the day he died.

The presidency of this man is as depressing a tale as young students are going to read in this series, from the death of his son in a train wreck between the election and the inaugural to his complete inability to do anything to prevent the coming war. This begs the question as to what anybody could have done during those years to do anything other than slow down the race to Civil War. Consequently, it is not so much that Peirce has any significant degree of responsibility for what would happen, but that he more than amply symbolizes the ineptness of the politicians of the country. Clearly Somervill does an excellent job of cataloguing his failures in office.

The final comment would be that these are very nice looking books. Apparently a set of colored portraits of the President were commissioned for this series, which are used not only to adorn the cover of each book but also work their way inside as well (e.g., Fillmore and Lincoln), and I really like them.

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This is a very long book (563 pages of text), but it may well be the definitive study of the 1937 court-packing controversy. Professor McKenna, emeritus University of Calgary, has devoted many years to the research and writing of the volume. Her research is comprehensive and impeccable, involving not only published sources but original sources such as manuscript collections, oral histories, and interviews. The author develops some fresh insights in discussing the Court's decisions adverse to the New Deal that prompted FDR's reaction, drawing upon recent research by Barry Cushman and Ted White. Ms. McKenna is extremely critical of FDR, not only because she contends his administration's sloppily drafted laws helped cause the problems that irked the Court, but also in terms of a cavalier legislative strategy that the author feels guaranteed defeat of the proposal in Congress. While perhaps better editing could have reduced the book's length [the author admits that 100 pages already had been edited out by the publisher], this book offers some valuable insights into the court-packing controversy and should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in this topic.

I like the Franklin books because morally they are good books. I am comfortable with my child reading and looking at them. Reading this book to your child is a good way to teach them to say SORRY!

I was quite pleased when I learned that this book was going to be available. This is a novelization of one of the lost fifth season episodes of the "Franklin" television series. This is one of many stories that viewers never got to see due to the cancellation of the program after the fourth season. Overall the story itself is fairly decent. Franklin is tired of having to go bed so early all the time and so he convinces his Mom to allow him to invite his friends for a "stay-up over." However, his plans start to fail when all of his friends want to get some sleep, but he keeps trying to find ways to keep them awake. Those who miss the television show will probably be pleased with this novelization, as there's a good chance this story may never make it to video.