Review: Benjamin Franklin’s Wise Words

Review:

Benjamin Franklin’s Wise Words

Author: K. M. Kostyal

Illustrator: Fred Harper

Publisher: National Geographic, 2017

Source: ARC

We all recognize them:

Honesty is the best policy.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Haste makes waste.

These were the sayings of Benjamin Franklin, the famous printer, diplomat, and scientist.

In this volume, young readers get these and many more of BF’s sayings, with explanations that pertain to today’s situations – and they are not so different from the past as you might imagine. Kostyal also works in plenty of interesting biographical and historical information.

I love the illustrations. They are wildly and wonderfully comical. For instance, readers should check out page 48 which illustrates the adage “He that Lies Down with Dogs, Shall Rise Up with Fleas.”

Learn more about K. M. Kostyal at: http://www.kmkostyal.com/

Learn more about Fred Harper at: http://www.fredharper.com/home.html

 

Note: I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.