Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos Review
I read this to my first and third grader. I planned to read a couple of chapters a day, but they had me reading several. It has fifteen chapters and a large font size that would be very friendly to a child just starting chapter books.
As far as the story itself, it is charming. We'd been studying Ben Franklin and this was a great story to add to the mix. It also generated lots of discussion as to what was true and what was fiction in the book. My son volunteered to read another Ben Franklin biography to help sort it out.
And, of course, after reading it, they enjoyed the Walt Disney mini-version, but agreed that the book was much better because the cartoon had left so much out.
If you'd like a very readable, but not dumbed-down, children's book, buy it. You won't be dissapointed.
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- ISBN13: 9780316517300
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Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos Overview
The true story of Ben Franklin, as told by his closest friend and advisor, Amos the mouse. According to Amos, it was really he who was responsible for Ben Franklin's inventions and discoveries. Written and illustrated with great wit and charm.
Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos Specifications
In A New and Astonishing Life Of Benjamin Franklin As Written by His Good Mouse AMOS, young readers will discover that while the good Mr. Franklin got considerable credit, many of his most important contributions really originated with Amos, a less-than-humble rodent. Oh sure, his manuscript was found by author-editor Robert Lawson and published first in 1939, but discerning readers ever since have figured that it's the mouse who's the fellow with the ... tale. (For ages 10 and up with a sense of humor)
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Customer Reviews
A Kid's Review (Yeah, It sounds pretty lame) - -
I'm reading this book for school. I think it's a little bit dumb because it's basically saying that Ben Franklin was a big-nosed moron who's obsessions were beautiful French ladies and electricity. I think it makes more sense to read this for language arts than for social studies, since it is less factual. I find the side effect is that whenever I read about Ben in some other context (not this book) I think, well, naturally he's not as big a genius as this says because obviously his mouse invented that. But of course, that never happened. This whole book is pure poppycock. It's cute, and I understand that it's imaginative, but it just doesn't make sense that Ben was not at all shocked that this scrawny little mouse comes up to him and talks. The fact that is was written from the mouse's point of view was interesting because it was negative. That makes it more interesting. That's why you are reading my review now. You almost never read 5 star reviews. It's always one star, once your done with all those two star, and so forth. See? And all though the mouse was very intelligent and inquisitive and I liked his train of thought, it was boring and poorly written. Well, not poorly, but think about all the great and fascinating things you could write from a mouses point of view. Why this? Although, I would like to give credit that it DOES talk about fact and history, and it is relatively educational, and more interesting than reading straight out of the social studies book. So, don't get me wrong, I LOVE creative writing and fantasy and all that, I just wish this book were better written and made more sense.
Don't bother reading - NJ -
It was a complete waste of time reading this book.
I found it to be totally unimaginative and poorly written.
There are much better children's books about Ben Franklin out there.
Save your money and time.
Good Book - Geraldine A. Wells - N.Y.
Ben and Me is a good book for the beginning reader. It also goes into some of the achievements of Ben Franklin. The humor in this book would delight all readers.
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