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Author
Publisher
Golden
Pub. Date
1958
Language
English
Description
This wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children's author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o' the Forest, Sam Patch's Last Leap, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Joe Magarac the Steel Man.
Illustrated throughout by Al Schmidt.
Author
Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhymed text and illustrations relate the life of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. It is a book that does for America's inner frontier what...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account describing how John Chapman was joined in the western Pennsylvania wilderness by his half-brother Nathaniel, who was unprepared for John's spartan lifestyle and unusual ways
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Compilation of four animated short films profiling legendary figures in American history. John Henry goes up against a machine with his hammer to help build America's railroads; Casey Jones, the brave engineer delivers the U.S. mail in record-breaking time; Johnny Appleseed plants apple trees across America to benefit the early pioneers; Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack, clears the land for American settlers.
12) Johnny Appleseed
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the man who traveled west planting apple seeds to make the country a better place to live
13) Johnny Appleseed
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
A biography of John Chapman whose distribution of appleseeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today
16) Johnny Appleseed
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the man who gained fame for planting apple trees throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, as well as some of the legends surrounding him.
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