Synopses & Reviews
This series introduces young readers to biographies. These biographies focus on important episodes that show what kind of person the subject is (or was) and how he or she came to be famous. Although written in a story format, these books are not fictionalized accounts of the subject. A chronology of major events follows the story, as does a brief afterword about the subject's life.
John Chapman loved all forms of nature, and he worked throughout his lifetime to improve it by planting apple trees. Known as the folk hero Johnny Appleseed, John helped to build America -- not with a hammer and nails, but with a bag full of seeds and a handful of dirt.