George Washington Carver

"This book from the Graphic Library collection is produced in a comic book format that will appeal to the most challenged reader. The book tells the story of George Washington Carver beginning with his life as a slave, his mother's kidnapping and his adoption by the Carvers. It also tells the story of how George left their home at the age of 12 to go to school and the struggles he endured to becom

"Peanuts make up two-thirds of all snack nuts in the United States. Peanut butter is the most popular use of peanuts, and nearly 90 percent of all U.S. households eat it. (The other 10 percent are probably deathly allergic to nuts.) George Washington Carver (1864-1943) is the "ingenious inventor" to whom we owe those wonderful uses. But there's more that this slave-born, plant-knowledgeable man di