Johnny appleseed biography kids

00:00My Little Golden Book about Johnny Appleseed

00:29By Lori Haskins Howren Illustrated by Genevieve Godbout

00:38On a fine September day more than two hundred years ago, a boy named John Chapman was born.

00:45Someday he would be famous, but he would be known by a different name, Johnny Appleseed.

00:55Johnny grew up in Massachusetts in a small, crowded house.

01:03He liked to take long walks in the woods where it was calm and quiet.

01:08He liked to feel the sun on his face and the earth under his bare feet.

01:16When Johnny turned eighteen, he took a very long walk, more than four hundred miles.

01:22He brought along food, supplies, and a sack of apple seeds.

01:26Johnny had an idea.

01:29Settlers were starting to go west in covered wagons, looking for new places to live.

01:34Johnny figured they would want apples to eat and press into cider.

01:38But there were no apples out west.

01:41Even if the settlers planted seeds, it would take years for the trees to sprout