J0HNNY APPLESEED THE GRAND OLD MAN OF THE FOREST by MARGARET HENLEY
A long time ago when America was still a very young country there was a man who everyone knew as Johnny Appleseed His hair was long and black and his eyes were blue and full of energy His real name was John Chapman but people don’t call him that anymore
When John was barely two years old his mother died and his father married another woman John began to live with his grandmother who had many apple trees in her garden Little John loved to watch the pretty flowers on the trees slowly change into delicious fruit
