Ben Franklin For Beginners

"Ben Franklin for Beginners is the perfect introduction for both young and old to one of America's Founding Fathers. Tim Ogline successfully captured the spirit and life story of Benjamin Franklin through his text and contemporary illustrations."-- "The History Girl, TheHistoryGirl.com"
"Ben Franklin may well have been the most American of all time. There was hardly any field of endeavor that America over took that he did not influence. He was a skillful politician and diplomat, a world class scientist who discovered the practical uses for electricity. He was an educator who founded the University of Pennsylvania and prompted the first public library system. He was an inventor who gave the world bifocals. He was a printer, a writer, a post-master and a dynamic public citizen. Tim Ogline recounts all this in Ben Franklin for Beginners in prose and cartoons which make it an easy read for adults and children as well. Even American who think they know about Franklin will be surprised and awed to learn about everything that his mastery touched. This is a must read which should inspire Americans who want to know how this great country was built."--Governor Edward G. Rendell
"Ogline's approach to a young adult-biography hybrid is nothing short of totally brilliant. Ogline explores nearly every facet of Ben Franklin from 'Humorist and Hoaxster' to 'Founder and Framer' all of which read as seamlessly as a fiction narrative. Each page of Ben Franklin For Beginners is adorned with a delightful cast of caricatures, sketches and cartoons of our founding geek. Each illustration succeeds at keeping the reader highly engaged without losing sight of what's important: learning something."--Collen T. Reese, Geekadelphia