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Krensky, Stephen

Ben Franklin and His First Kite

32 pp. | Simon/Aladdin | June, 2002 | Library ISBN 0-689-84985-0 $$11.89 | Paper ISBN 0-689-84984-2 $$3.99
(4) K-3 Ready-to-Read series. Illustrated by Bert Dodson. This fictionalized account tells of the day ten-year-old Benjamin Franklin used the wind and a kite to pull himself across a lake without swimming a stroke. Although it is unclear what Franklin's "experiment" proves, the engaging text and watercolor illustrations accurately depict the eighteenth-century Boston setting. A timeline of important events in Franklin's life is appended.
Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

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