1. Johnny Appleseed retold by William E. Evans Even as a boy John Chapman was a different sort of a person. He liked to spend long hours, sometimes days, in the woods near his Massachusetts home. The animals learned to trust Johnny and would eat from his hand. google images.com 22-2-12

2. Johnny Appleseed ● Johnny took his Bible into the woods and would read aloud to the animals. His step-mother never really missed him; she was too busy taking care of the ten other children. google images.com 22-2-12

3. Johnny Appleseed ● When he was just a young man, Johnny headed west on his own. He settled for a while and built himself a little farm. He missed the apple orchards that grew all over Massachusetts, google images.com 22-2-12

4. Johnny Appleseed ● so Johnny went to cider mills and picked up the seeds they were going to throw away. Before too many years, Johnny's little house was surrounded by lovely apple trees. google images.com 22-2-12

5. Johnny Appleseed ● Johnny's farm was very near the main wagon road that headed west into the great Ohio River Valley. Johnny figured that a home without apple trees wasn't much of a home at all, so google images.com 22-2-12

6. Johnny Appleseed ● he started handing out bags of seeds to pioneers headin' west. But it got to botherin' Johnny that maybe folks weren't taking care to plant the seeds or taking care of the little apple trees. So he decided to head further west and do the job google images.com 22-2-12

7. Johnny Appleseed ● of planting apple orchards himself. ● Johnny gave his little farm to a poor woman who had several children and no place to live, google images.com 22-2-12

8. Johnny Appleseed ● packed some apple seeds, put a cooking pot on his head, and began walking westward. ● Everywhere he stopped, J. planted seeds and made friends. He helped folks clear land and build their homes. google images.com 22-2-12

9. Johnny Appleseed ● He was friendly with the Indians, too, and helped the white settlers and the Indians learn to live together without war. google images.com 22-2-12

10. Johnny Appleseed ● People told stories of seeing Johnny playing with bear cubs while the mother bear looked on unbothered; google images.com 22-2-12

11. Johnny Appleseed ● of how he traveled down the river on a raft with a wolf as a companion; and how he went barefoot most of the time because someone else always seemed to need shoes more than he. google images.com 22-2-12

12. Johnny Appleseed ● It wasn't long before folks began to call him Johnny Appleseed. All over the wilderness people looked forward to seeing this simple, gentle man who only wanted to plant apple seeds and make new friends. google images.com 22-2-12