A New Look at an American Legend

Wait… Johnny Appleseed was real? 

 

Yes!  He absolutely was!  His name was John Chapman and he was born and raised in Massachusetts before famously heading out west bringing the gift of appleseeds to plant trees in places where apple trees were few.

 

Johnny, as I have written him, is the kind of kid who is good at a whole bunch of things that just don’t seem to matter at school. This is the story of a boy who will grow up to be a legend … but first he needs to climb down from that tree, find his little brother, learn perfect cursive, and remember to put his shoes on before he leaves the house!

Appleseeds combines good old-fashioned imagination with history detective work to tell a story about how Johnny Chapman’s childhood might have been in the western Massachusetts town of Longmeadow where he grew up.