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The Leather Apron Club
  • Published: 28 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9781580897198
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $40.00

The Leather Apron Club

Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library

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A powerful celebration of libraries from master storyteller Jane Yolen. Benjamin Franklin introduces his son Billy to the Leather Apron Club, where it's love at first page.

When Billy's father Benjamin Franklin announces that Billy and his lazy cousin James will soon have a tutor, Billy is initially dismayed. But his tutor awakens him to the power of story and books, and when Billy accompanies his father to the Leather Apron Club (which Franklin started in 1727), he decides to do more with his education and life.

Best-selling author Jane Yolen introduces readers to the Leather Apron Club. Not only was the Club the first successful lending library in the United States--it also exists to this day as the Library Company of Philadelphia! Careful readers will notice that the story cleverly incorporates famous sayings from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, underscoring the lasting impact of words.
  • Published: 28 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9781580897198
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the authors

Wendell Minor

Wendell Minor is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design. His work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of American Illustration, and the NASA Art Collection at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. You can view some of Minor's artwork at minorart.com
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Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Her many awards include both the Kerlan Award and the Regina Medal for the body of her work. She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and St. Andrews, Scotland. janeyolen.com.
portrait photo of Jane Yolen

Praise for The Leather Apron Club

Praise for Meet Me at the Well (Yolen)

  • "A solid source of study and reflection for libraries with religious patrons."--School Library Journal

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  • Booklist's Top Ten Biographies for Youth
  • YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
  • Booklist, starred review

    • Praise for Night Train, Night Train (Minor)
  • "A dreamy, lyrical picture book."--School Library Journal
  • "Wendell's evocative scenes capture. . . nostalgia."--Publishers Weekly