Franklin's Music Lessons

Franklin the Turtle

by Sharon Jennings (Adapter), Alice Sinkner (Adapter), Shelley Southern (Adapter)

Franklin wants to play "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" on the piano, so he begins taking lessons. He learns the scales, but he would rather play baseball than practice. Will Franklin ever master the song? This Level 2 first reader contains longer stories, varied sentences, increased vocabulary, more difficult visual clues and some repetition.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Music

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Sharon Jennings is a children's book author. She has published over 70 books in 27 years. She teaches writing at Ryerson University. She was President of The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) for three terms.

Reviews

[Rod Brown]

Franklin learns a boring lesson about the necessity of practice when it comes to getting better at something.

My daughter liked a few Franklin books when she was three, but not this one.


FOR REFERENCE:

Based on the TV episode Franklin's Music Lessons (Season 2, Episode 6), written by Mark Mayerson. Based on the Franklin books by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark.

[Rosa Cline]

I enjoyed reading this Franklin the Turtle book to my 2 year old granddaughter. It SO NOT word for word from the television show and kind of changes it up a bit too so that made it nice to read.

Franklin wants to learn to play piano and becomes excited to know that Granny teaches lessons... and that Beaver has been learning from her for a while. He starts but then gets bored with it because he can't play a song right away, practice, practice, practice is what is being told to him but baseball he finds more fun and more time consuming...

[Paolish]

Creo a veces queremos todo rápido, resultados rápido; este libro nos muestra que sin práctica no se puede llegar a él tan esperando resultado que todos queremos; pero el mensaje se pierde un poco al comparar tocar una campana con jugar Beisbol.

[Theresa]

great story for interest reading closely follows tv show

[Christa Sunderland]

This is a great book for young kids to read, especially if they love to play music and are getting upset about it.