Arthur and the True Francine (book)



Arthur and the True Francine (originally published as simply The True Francine) is the fourth book in the Arthur Adventure series. It was first published in 1981 by Little, Brown and Company and was re-published in 1996 with a re-illustrated cover, although the page illustrations were recycled from the original publication. The cover illustration of the first edition depicted Francine wearing a baseball cap and holding a baseball bat, and the cover illustration of the renewed edition depicted Arthur and Francine out in the baseball field. It became adapted as a cartoon segment as the second half of Episode 14 of Season 1 in 1996, although the story was quite different.

This book is also the first book where Arthur and his friends are in the third grade, and that school year has since become their present time in the series.