Little Naturalist: George Washington Carver Loved Plants by Katie Coombs

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      George Washington Carver was born the son of an enslaved person near the end of the Civil War. When he was a baby, he and his mother were kidnapped by raiders. His mother was never found, but he was brought home. His mother’s owners became his foster parents, raising him and his older brother. As he grew, George worked many jobs and tried many schools to learn everything he could, eventually earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agriculture at Iowa State Agricultural College. Then Booker T. Washington asked him to come to teach at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an all-black college. George taught and researched there for many years, creating educational outreach programs to help poor farmers use the land more productively to take care of the earth and feed people. He is best known for his work with peanuts.

      Recommended for infants to age 3
      Board Book: 22 pages


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