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The Johnny Appleseed Museum Gift Shop is managed by the Johnny Appleseed Society- a supporter of the Museum.
Your purchases contribute to the work of the Society and The Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum.
John Chapman embodied and taught the virtues of generosity, humility, stewardship, thrift, entrepreneurship, and caring for one’s fellow man.
Apple recipes from members and friends of the Johnny Appleseed Society.
Printed locally, these recipes are submitted by members past and present from our own Johnny Appleseed Society.
Product Dimensions: 8.75 x 5. ⅝ x 1/2
A poem about John Chapman that regales him through the memory of a young girl named Hannah Goodwin and her family as he passed through her community. Hand-painted illustrations by Kathy Jakobsen accompany the poem.
Magnet Dimensions: 10 x 9 1/4 x 1/8
Appleseeds: A Boy Named Johnny Champan by Melissa M. Cybulski was published in 2024 and is a staff favorite. This work is historical fiction but is heavily based on Cybulski's real historical findings with the Longmeadow Historical Society, where she used their archives to learn more about young Johnny Appleseed's life in a previously under-researched aspect. The author focuses on Champan's formative years as a young boy living with his step mother and attending school in western Massachusetts. Cybulski imagines Chapman as a relatable young boy who struggles with traditional schooling and feels more at home in the wilderness. Chapman makes new friends, explores his community, and demonstrates day to day life for a young boy in colonial America.
Size: 8.5 in ×5.5 in × 1/2 in
157 pgs
Ages: 7-10
Advanced Elementary-early middle school reader
Written by a former professor of education of Urbana University Ann Corfman, this is a fifth through seventh-grade reader that emphasizes that while Chapman wearing a tin pot on his head was likely fiction, there were many hats Chapman likely did wear. It studies the function and purpose of those hats in brief while expounding upon the greater need and values of professions in a pioneer society.
Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1/32
25-years of research. Completely documented events in John Chapman's life.
The Standard for John Chapman research.
Hardback version of what is widely considered the most comprehensive and best biography about John Chapman to ever be written.
Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.75 x 1.25
Wooden magnet made of wood from a tree planted by Johnny Appleseed, himself.
Magnet Dimensions: 2 x 1.5 x 1/4
Posters of a barn quilt tour from years past.
Poster Dimensions: 18.5” x 22”
A story for ages 4-8 which focuses on the legendary aspects of Johnny Appleseed, reimagined with vivid accompanying illustrations.
Magnet Dimensions: 8.5 x 11x 1/8
A short story that asks young readers to imagine themselves in Chapman's time, and encourages them to consider his values of using what one has, sharing, respecting nature, trying to be peaceable, and being patient when beginning on great projects.
Magnet Dimensions: 11.5 x 10 x 1/4
The best small volume with general information and the addition of his way of Chapman’s thinking and beliefs.
Highly recommended for a fine description of John Chapman.
A short book dedicated to Chapman’s spiritual beliefs, his Swedenborgian teachings, and his missionary work for his faith.
Book Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1/2
A chapter book geared towards third-grade readers, this is an illustrated biography of Chapman which is well-researched and digestible. Between the chapters are relevant pieces of historical context to help young readers further understand the greater contextual history of America surrounding the historical figure of Chapman.
Magnet Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 1/4
Written by former professor of education of Urbana University Ann Corfman, this is a pre-k-first grade reader that uses each letter of the alphabet to explore a word related to Johnny Appleseed.
Book Dimensions: 8.75 x 5. ⅝ x 1/2
Extensive detailed information about Ohio politics and society (1813-1870).
From the diary and letters of John H. James (558 pages).
A biography of late 19th century lawyer John H James which also explores early economics, settlement, expansion, and politics of the greater Miami Valley and Cincinnati, Ohio area in the 1800s.
More readable less academic.
Basics of Price research with some more recent information.
Softback book for adult readers, a biographical and historical book which tells the story of John Chapman and frames the American society which informed his life and times, as well as traces where many of the famous ‘Appleseed’ legends spring from.
The views and remembrances from people and families that knew John Chapman when he was living in Mansfield, Ohio.
This book uses the personal documents of author Rosella Rice, who claimed to have known Chapmen well in her lifetime.
Written by former professor of education of Urbana University Ann Corfman, this is a first through fourth-grade reading level book studying the values of John Chapman such as generosity, kindness, civic-mindedness, and caring for those around you.
Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 x 1/16