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Franklin Has a Sleepover.
Paulette Bourgeois. Ilustrated by Brenda Clark.
Pre-school - Grade 1 / Ages 3 - 5.
***/4
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excerpt:
When Franklin and Bear were ready for bed, Franklin's parents gave them both a glass of water and a good-night hug.
FRANKLIN, THE BEST-SELLING TURTLE, stars in his twelfth picture book. He
invites his friend bear for a sleep-over and is really excited. Franklin
tidies his room while Bear packs his bag and tucks his stuffed bunny on
top. The two decide to camp in the living room and have great fun until
its time to go to sleep. Suddenly Bear is homesick, until Franklin thinks
of a solution to Bear's problem.
As usual, the
homy details -- like bug porridge and a wooden-log phone -- in the lumpy
terrapin's life are well realised in Clark's watercolours. This new
adventure is as gentle as the earlier stories, but not as humorous as
Franklin Fibs (1991) or Franklin in the Dark
(1986).
Other sleep-over
stories, like Arthur's First Sleepover: An Arthur Adventure
by Marc Brown (Little Brown, 1994) or Ira Sleeps Over by
Bernard Waber (Houghton Mifflin, 1972) develop this new experience more
fully and have more interesting characters and plots. But this new
Franklin story will be popular and will be enjoyed at home and at story
times.
Recommended.
Lorraine Douglas is the Youth Services Coordinator for the Winnipeg Public Library, and has appeared as Franklin at a number of library programs. (And she's very glad she doesn't have to wear his fun-fur suit all the time!).
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ISSN 1201-9364