Franklin's Trading Cards

Franklin the Turtle

by Sharon Jennings, Sean Jeffrey (Illustrator), Alice Sinkner (Illustrator)

Franklin helps his friends build their own collection of trading cards. This Level 2 first reader contains longer stories, varied sentences, increased vocabulary, more difficult visual clues and some repetition.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2003

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 and his two friends are getting trading cards out of cereal boxes. One day Franklin gets two cards that neither of his friends has and must decide who gets the extra one.

I wasn't fond of this on my first read-through back in 2003 -- and neither was my three-year-old daughter -- but this time I had a better appreciation of the clever solution to the quandary.


FOR REFERENCE:

Based on the TV episode Franklin and the Trading Cards (Season 4, Episode 9), written by John Van Bruggen. Based on the Franklin books by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark.

[Rosemary Macpherson]

My kids loved this book about Franklin collecting trading cards. It's climax is when Franklin has two of the same rare card that both his friends want, and he is trying to decide to whom to give the extra. I didn't like it as much because it was all about the lengths Franklin and friends went to get the trading cards and I tried to hide it from the kids, so I didn't have to read it.