Franklin and the Tin Flute

This release in the Franklin First Readers series is based on the Franklin TV story "Franklin's Family Treasure," written by Patrick Granleese. The story is adapted by Sharon Jennings into a Level 2 Kids Can Read book. Franklin finds a tin flute while searching through the basement. He can't play it very well and so he decides to trade it away, not realizing what an important treasure it is. This leads to a series of comic misadventures in which Franklin finds that the flute has been traded all over the place. He tries desparately to get it back after finding out from his father that it's a family treasure. The illustrations look mostly like what you see on TV, This is a simple retelling for young readers and while I still feel that the dialogue isn't entirely natural, the story is preserved well enough that I don't mind. The images look mostly like the TV show, except there are a lot of individual character pictures with no background images.