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Title A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin [Hoopla electronic resource].

Publication Info. [United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 22 min.)) : sd., col.
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Series Dreamscape kids
Dreamscape kids.
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Credits Directed by Andy T. Jones.
Performer Narrated by Qarie Marshall.
Summary Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won't hear of it. The other trades he tries-candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner-bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit of knowledge with him. That tendency is exactly what leads him to become the astonishingly versatile genius we remember today. Inspired by The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Michael J. Rosen's wry tale captures Ben's spirit in evocative yet playful language. A love story to the value of variety, A Ben of All Trades sheds light on an unconventional path to greatness and humanizes a towering figure in American history.
Audience Not rated.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile films.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Childhood and youth -- Drama.
Inventors -- United States -- Drama.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Drama
Genre Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Jones, Andy T., film director.
Tavares, Matt, illustrator.
Rosen, Michael J., 1954- author.
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Rosen, Michael J., 1954- Ben of all trades.
Marshall, Qarie, 1970- narrator.
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Added Title Most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin.
Music No. MWT13078098
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