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Ben Franklin's almanac : being a true account of the good gentleman's life
    Fleming, Candace.
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Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Pub date: c2003.
Pages: ix, 120 p. :
ISBN: 0689835493
Summary
How Ben Franklin answered that question -- through his work as a writer, printer, statesman, and inventor -- forever established him as one of America's greatest figures. On one day in 1729 he published the first edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette; on another day he changed the Declaration of Independence by adding the famous words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident"; and it was all in a day's work when he planted the first willow trees in America. Modeled on his own Poor Richard's Almanack, this unique scrapbook captures Franklin's countless accomplishments. Biography and anecdote, cartoon and etching mesh to create a fascinating portrait of this most fascinating man. Candace Fleming spent three years researching Ben Franklin's Almanac by scouring original sources from the American Philosophical Society, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Franklin Collection at Yale University, and even by wandering around Liberty Square in Philadelphia, trying to invoke Ben Franklin and eighteenth-century America. Fleming has been a Ben fan since fourth grade -- when she read Ben and Me -- and she even sang happy birthday to Ben on his 296th birthday. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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Personal Author: Fleming, Candace.
Title: Ben Franklin's almanac : being a true account of the good gentleman's life / Candace Fleming.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication info: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Physical descrip: ix, 120 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
General Note: "An Anne Schwartz book."
Contents: Courteous reader -- Year-by-year look at Ben's life -- Boyhood memories -- Family album -- Writer's journal -- Tokens of a well-lived life -- Scientist's scrapbook -- Revolutionary memorabilia -- Souvenirs from France -- Final remembrances.
Summary: Brings together eighteenth century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin.
Personal subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.
Personal subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Subject term: Statesmen--United States--Biography--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.
Subject term: Printers--United States--Biography--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.
Subject term: Inventors--United States--Biography--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.
Subject term: Scientists--United States--Biography--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.
Children's subject: Statesmen.
Children's subject: Inventors.
key: ocm49699409
ISBN: 0689835493