The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library by Yolen, Jane

The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580897198)

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The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library by Yolen, Jane

The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library

$17.99
The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library by Yolen, Jane

The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library

$17.99
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful celebration of libraries from master storyteller Jane Yolen. Benjamin Franklin introduces his son Billy to the Leather Apron Club, where it's love at first page.

When Billy's father Benjamin Franklin announces that Billy and his lazy cousin James will soon have a tutor, Billy is initially dismayed. But his tutor awakens him to the power of story and books, and when Billy accompanies his father to the Leather Apron Club (which Franklin started in 1727), he decides to do more with his education and life.

Best-selling author Jane Yolen introduces readers to the Leather Apron Club. Not only was the Club the first successful lending library in the United States--it also exists to this day as the Library Company of Philadelphia Careful readers will notice that the story cleverly incorporates famous sayings from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, underscoring the lasting impact of words.

Author: Jane Yolen
ISBN-10: 1580897193
ISBN-13: 9781580897198
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.80w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2021
Booklist 09/01/2021 pg. 81
Publishers Weekly 11/01/2021
By Jane Yolen
By Jane Yolen
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Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of over three hundred children's books including Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs and Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs, Bad Girls (with Heidi E. Y. Stemple); Owl Moon, a Caldecott Medal Winner; the How Do Dinosaurs . . . ? series, and Sea Queens. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of the Americas. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts and Scotland.

Wendell Minor has designed more than two thousand book covers and written and/or illustrated more than fifty children's books, including many in collaboration with Jean Craighead George. Recent titles include Trapped!, How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?, and If You Were a Panda Bear. Wendell has collaborated with Rob Burleigh on Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic, Abraham Lincoln Comes Home, If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond, and Into the Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream.

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