Introduce your brilliant baby to agricultural scientist, inventor, and environmentalist George Washington Carver.
He lives in Indianapolis, IN, with his wife and children..
He is the cocreator of Ello There Outdoors selling prints and accessories supporting the National Parks and outdoors.
Seth Lucas is an illustrator and designer with a BFA in graphic design.
She lives in Bountiful, Utah.
About author(s): Kate Coombs is an award-winning author of original fairy tales, poems, middle-grade fantasy novels, and picture books, including the critically acclaimed Water Sings Blue , which won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award for 2012, and many books in the bestselling BabyLit series.
Kate Coombs \' engaging narrative and Seth Lucas\' captivating art teach young readers about this incredible inventor and environmentalist, encouraging Little Naturalists to Be Kind and Be Adventurous.
He is best known for his work with peanuts.
George taught and researched there for many years, also creating educational outreach programs to help poor farmers use the land more productively to both take care of the earth and feed people.
Washington asked him to come teach at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an all-black college.
Then Booker T.
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.
His mother\'s owners became his foster parents, raising him and his older brother.
His mother was never found, but he was brought home.
When he was a baby, he and his mother were kidnapped by raiders.
George Washington Carver was born the son of a slave near the end of the Civil War.
Introduce your brilliant baby to agricultural scientist, inventor, and environmentalist George Washington Carver
