Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1951 Winner & Honorees

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

The life and legend of Johnny Appleseed presented in nine stories, each named for a variety of apples which Johnny may have planted in the Midwest river valleys. Each story takes him westward from the Youhioheny to the Mississippi.

A biography of Lincoln whose success story became the symbol of the American dream--the backwoods boy who by honesty, dignity, and kindness won the highest office in the country.

"His name was Appleby Capple, but they called him Apple for short - an odd name, it is true, not for a fruit but for a boy. This is the story of his search for the rare Zebra butterfly, which he hoped to present to Cousin Clement on his ninety-ninth birthday, and of the many adventures that befell poor Apple when his search led him to become lost in the woods among the wood creatures, some Indians who just happened to be there, and all the birds and beasts that had recently escaped from a nearby zoo. That is the story - but the story provides only a portion of the fun in Miss Parrish's book. It is really a new kind of alphabet-nonsense book, divided into twenty-six chapters, with a fully developed character to represent each letter of the alphabet."--Jacket flap.