Franklin the Turtle - Toronto, Ontario - Famous Fictional Figures on Waymarking.com

The Franklin Children's Garden in Toronto (visit link) has several bronze sculptures including this one - all by Ruth Abernethy. The sculptures are based on the Franklin the Turtle children's books by authors Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois.

This piece has a vest wearing bear carrying a basket of berries to the small table at which Franklin the Turtle is sitting. There is a chessboard on the table. Several sculpted tree stumps are spread around the table...and Franklin uses one of them as a chair.

Franklin was also made into an animated television series (visit link) 1997 – 2004:

"The series focuses on the eponymous growing young turtle who, as his television stories and books always begin, "could count by twos and tie his shoes". He goes to school, lives in a small village called Woodland with his friends, and has many adventures playing and learning in the world around him, sometimes with the helping hand of an adult or his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Turtle. Franklin likes swimming, arts and crafts (especially drawing), and loves shoofly pie. He's been known to be afraid of the dark and of thunderstorms. Franklin has a best friend named Bear, as well as a blue blanket and a blue stuffed dog named Sam. Every night he sleeps with his blanket and Sam. During the thunder storms when Franklin is scared Sam and his blue blanket help keep him calm.

Franklin almost always aired with two 11-minute stories (specifically paired together, although usually for no special reason), except on Canada's CBC, which splits the stories apart and shows one at a time. The Franklin DVD and video releases include individual stories grouped together as part of a theme, rather than complete episodes. Unlike many animated children's programs, Franklin has no interstitial segments or end-tags featuring the characters. The scenes shown in the cartoon opening introduction were changed after the show's first season. Many of these scenes featured Otter, a character who left the series early in the first season and was only seen once more in later seasons."

The date of the works is unknown.

Character Type: Literature Character originator: Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois Internet Link: [Web Link] Address or Location: Franklin Childrens Garden Centre Island Toronto, Ontario Canada

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