Frank Carlson Library

Tilly the turtle lives in a tank with a pond and big rocks in her best friend Todd's bedroom. Tilly loves to keep warm under her heat lamp! Todd likes to watch her swim and they sometimes play hide and seek together. The fun illustrations and corresponding text will inspire a love of reading in emerging readers and is a perfect foundational book for children who haven't yet started reading. This tale of friendship promotes the proper way young

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Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. Mr. Hoppy keeps substituting ever-larger tortoises for Mrs. Silver's pet Alfie, in hopes of convincing her to marry him. Mr. Hoppy is smitten with Mrs. Silver, whose main concern is her tortoise. Mr. Hoppy's love for the flowers he grows on his balcony is exceeded only by his love for Mrs. Silver, the lady who lives in the apartment...

Once he realizes that the dinosaurs in the museum are not alive, Franklin is able to enjoy his class visit there.

Franklin the turtle must decide what toy he wants to give to the Christmas toy drive at school.

Franklin the turtle is in a hurry to get to school for the Valentine's Day party with his friends.

Franklin can't seem to find just the right gift for his mother's birthday. He asks everyone and they all have a different idea. Can he ever figure it out?

A turtle afraid of small dark places, and therefore of crawling into his shell, asks a variety of animals for advice, only to find out that each has a fear of its own.

Franklin the turtle learns it is always better to tell the truth after he claims he can swallow seventy-six flies in the blink of an eye.

Franklin's room is so messy he can't even find his favorite toys until his parents propose a solution.

In this Franklin Classic Storybook, Franklin is very excited to find a camera. He knows that he should find the owner and return the camera, but his friends tell him "finders keepers!" and soon Franklin gets carried away taking pictures. With his father's encouragement, Franklin decides to return the camera to its rightful owner-but finding out who the owner is takes some clever sleuthing! This fixed-layout ebook, which preserves the design and layout...