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Here's a way to have a range of picture book stories about the ever-popular Franklin the Turtle at your fingertips. Tie-ins from episodes of the 3D-animated television series Franklin and Friends, these eight separate stories provide models for dealing with a variety of everyday concerns and real problems faced by small children as they navigate the new frontiers of their lives. They help explain how to deal with uncomfortable situations, such as the fear of speaking in front of the class (Franklin and the Wonder), getting a nickname you don't like (Franklin, the Little Bubble) or being the only one who still struggles with a skill that all the other children have mastered (Franklin's Ups an...
Everyone is geared up and excited to play spaceship, except Snail --- he just wants to play his harmonica. Will Franklin find a way for everyone to have fun together?
Franklin and Bear are partners for Woodland's Bumpy Buggy race. They really want to win, so they decide to fix up their old buggy. But they don't like each other's ideas! Can Franklin and Bear learn to compromise?
"Bear on the Homefront retells the true story of two guest children, Grace and William Chambers, who cross the ocean and meet Aileen Rogers, a nurse serving on the homefront. With her is Teddy, the stuffed bear whose trip to the front lines of World War I is chronicled in A Bear in War. Using archival images and Aileen Roger's wartime diary, Stephanie Innes and Harry Endrulat recreate William and Grace's journey by train to their host family's prairie farm."--Amazon.com.
During World War One, a young girl slips her teddy bear into a care package for her father, a medic posted to the trenches of France. Although her father dies in the battle of Passchendaele, his belongings are shipped back to his family, along with the toy bear, which today sits in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. In 1915, 37-year-old Lawrence Browning Rogers enlisted in the Fifth Canadian Mounted Rifles, leaving behind his wife, two children, and their farm in East Farnham, Quebec. Over the next two and a half years, the family exchanged hundreds of letters, and daughter Aileen sent her beloved Teddy overseas to keep her father safe. Teddy returned home safely, but Lieutenant Rogers did n...
Franklin's Aunt T is always calling him embarrassing nicknames - the latest one is "Little Bubble"! He is sure everyone will overhear her at her party, and he just can't let that happen. But with a little help from Bear, Franklin learns that Aunt T's silly nickname isn't so silly after all.
Franklin's friends have all mastered a cool new toy --- Pogo Paws! But when Franklin tries the jumping shoes, he falls flat on his shell. With a little help from Bear, Franklin learns that practice makes perfect!
Franklin and the Super Cluepers have a mystery to solve - Harriet's doll, Lilly Kitty, is missing! Will they be able to find her using teamwork and their super detective skills?
Franklin and his classmates must find a wonder of nature to share at the next show and tell. Franklin and Rabbit find an amazing wonder - a chrysalis! - but Rabbit is too afraid to speak in front of everyone. Can Franklin help Rabbit overcome his fear and share their discovery with the class?
Franklin becomes jealous when his best friend Bear makes a new friend.