Folks Call Me Appleseed John

I did not like this book at all. The first reason I did not like it is because of the pictures. The illustrations were done in such a way that they were old fashioned, looked like a painting, and you could not make things out clearly. Many of the illustrations were smudged together. The second

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reason that I did not like the book is because it started out very slow and did not catch my attention. The big idea of this book is that sometimes folktales do not always give us the full perspective and we need to search out other books to find other perspectives.

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Folks Call Me Appleseed John is about the legend of Johnny Appleseed. The main point of the book is to demonstrate perserverence and kindness. This book has very rustic illustrations, which I like. This type of illustration enhances the story. I really liked how in depth the story went. The legend

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that I knew was basically "Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees everywhere." This story goes into how John's half brother came to live with him, how they lived, and how John treated animals and Native Americans. I would recommend this book to other people because it was so good. I also like how at the end of the book it has a more detailed history of John.

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There are many tall tales about Johnny Appleseed. Most tell of his courage, generosity, and potent green thumb. Many people don't know that the real Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman, was a tale spinner himself.One story John loved to tell was about the time his half brother, Nathaniel, came to live

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with him. Nathaniel, who was used to a comfortable life in Massachusetts, was not exactly well suited for rough living in the wilderness of northwestern Pennsylvania with his free-spirited brother. He certainly did not expect to find John dressed in a burlap sack with a mush pot on his head, living in a hollow sycamore tree. John had to bail Nathaniel out of trouble more than once.This homespun, comical story brings out the compassion, humor, and independent spirit of this quintessentially American hero. Andrew Glass's exquisitely rendered oil paintings capture the dramatic beauty of western Pennsylvania in the early nineteenth century and the pioneer spirit of the people who opened the American West.

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This book was fantastic! I really felt that it was true to the traditional literature story just retold by this author. The writing style was wonderful. I felt that it really flowed well. Additionally it was sequenced and timed appropriately to where not to much time was spent on one part of the

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story and nothing felt to rushed either. Overall I was really impressed with the writing style and felt that it was written in a way that really would lend itself to oral storytelling which is wonderful because that is where it originated. I really loved the illustrations in this book. They at extremely simple and that really adds to the way the story is told and the "feeling" it has. The illustrations were really able to tell the story for new readers and supplement the words for those who are stronger in reading. The main purpose of this book is to entertain the readers.

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