Book Review: Meet Franklin Bean (Franklin Bean Superhero series, book 1) – by Emmy Swain

Book: Meet Franklin Bean

Author/Publisher: Emmy Swain

Illustrator: Levi Whitworth

Date: 2011

Genre: children’s

Pages: 34

Price: Kindle $2.88; paperback $8.85

My Rating: An interesting, fun mystery for the young readers; addresses bullying and other life issues

This is a short chapter book with great illustrations by Levi Whitworth and is book one of a series by Emmy Swain.

Chapter titles are:

Our New Home
Franklin Meets Mom
New Friends
Restless Night
Fisherman Saved
Day Before School
Where Are You?

Meet Franklin Bean is a story about a young boy, John, who has to relocate with his mother after she lost her job. He is nervous about moving to a smaller house in a different neighbourhood and having to change schools. Unfortunately, John meets up with bullies soon after moving and his misery increases until he finds a stray dog, Franklin Bean. But there’s something amazing about Franklin Bean – he can talk! John’s life begins to look and feel much better.

Franklin Bean has another amazing secret that – in this book – John hasn’t figured out yet.

Meet Franklin Bean has some applicable life lessons in it, but Emmy Swain presents them in a way that is fun without seeming as if it is teaching. This is a good story for very young readers and pre-readers.

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Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂