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Contact "Ben Franklin For Beginners" author/artist Tim Ogline to visit your school, library, or group function at 215-431-3086 or [email protected]. FROM THE BACK COVER Benjamin Franklin narrated, and lived, the Great American Success Story. As America’s prototypical polymath, he excelled at – and even defined – a number of professions including printer, writer, postmaster, scientist, inventor, public citizen, politician, and diplomat. He was a cornerstone in the foundation of the United States. He discovered practicable uses for electricity. He was America’s first great satirist. He founded the University of Pennsylvania. He invented bifocals. He was a legendary ladies’ man. He was all of these things... and he was so much more. ABOUT TIM E. OGLINE Tim Ogline's award-winning illustration work has been published by The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Wall Street Journal, and the Utne Reader among others. Ogline's design practice has served Pennsylvania Governor (and former Philadelphia Mayor) Ed Rendell, SmithKline Beecham, the White House, the National Governors Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania, and many more. Tim is also an educator as well, teaching in the Illustration and Graphic Design Departments at Moore College of Art & Design and previously at Temple University's Tyler School of Art... You can learn more about Tim in his bio and CV on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timogline PULITZER PRIZE WINNER JOSEPH J. ELLIS SAYS OF BEN FRANKLIN FOR BEGINNERS: "As the song says, most American youngsters 'don't know much about history.' Indeed there is an epidemic of historical illiteracy out there in our public schools fully as troubling as the more publicized deficiencies in math and science. Tim Ogline's beguiling book on Ben Franklin represents a kind of verbal vaccine that will address this national illness, giving us a Franklin that kids will find accessible and, as they would say, 'awesome,' while mature scholars will attest is the genuine article." — Joseph J. Ellis, Author of Founding Brothers GEEKADELPHIA.COM HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT BEN FRANKLIN FOR BEGINNERS: "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."
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“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you’re dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
BEN FRANKLIN FOR BEGINNERS
Written and illustrated by Tim E. Ogline.
Published by For Beginners, 1 October
2013.
Distributed by Random House.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?PrinterWriterHumoristPublisherPostmasterScientistInventorPoliticianDiplomat
Ben and BeginningsBorn: January 17, 1706Parents: Josiah & Abiah Franklin
Fifteenth of Seventeen ChildrenHometown: Boston, MAArrival in Philadelphia: 1723
Pen & PressThe New England CourierThe Nature & Necessity of Paper CurrencyThe Pennsylvania GazettePoor Richard’s AlmanackThe General MagazinePlain TruthProposals Relating to EducationExperiments & Observations of ElectricityFirst American Political CartoonThe Way to WealthThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Quotable Ben Franklin
“Early to bed and early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and
wise.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I
remember.
Involve me and I learn.”
“In this world nothing can be said to be
certain,
except death and taxes.”
“God helps them that helps themselves.”
“Three may keep a secret,
if two of them are dead.”
“Keep the eyes wide open before marriage
and half shut afterwards.”
The Quotable Ben Franklin
“Never trust quotes on the Internet.”
Innovator and InventorSwim FinsPennsylvania FireplaceBatteryLightning RodGlass ArmonicaPhonetic AlphabetCharted the Gulf StreamLong ArmBifocals
Public CitizenJuntoLibrary Company of PhiladelphiaUnion Fire CompanyAmerican Philosophical SocietyAssociators for City of PhiladelphiaUniversity of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia Contributionship
Turning PointStamp ActLondonStamp ActBoston MassacreThe Hutchinson LettersBoston Tea PartyInto the CockpitIntolerable ActsLexington & Concord
Founder and FramerAlbany Plan of UnionDeclaration of IndependenceTreaties of Amity and CommerceTreaty of ParisConstitution
The Franklin FamilyWife: Deborah Read Rogers Franklin
Son: William Franklin
Son: Francis Folger Franklin
Daughter: Sarah Franklin Bache
