Johnny Appleseed

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Kathy Jakobsen is one of America’s premier folk artists. Widely collected, her paintings are included in a number of permanent collections, including those of the Museum of American Folk Art and the Smithsonian. She is the author and/or artist of several books for young readers, including My New York, This Land is Your Land, and Johnny Appleseed.

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books, memoirs, and poems for adults and children, including several works featuring her father, world-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. She is also involved with the Lindbergh Foundation, which seeks to improve the quality of life through a balance between technology and nature.

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About the Illustrator

Kathy Jakobsen is one of the premier folk artists in the United States. She is the creator of My New York, This Land Is Your Land, and Johnny Appleseed, and her oil paintings have been exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Japan. The American Folk Art Museum called Kathy “one of the best landscape folk painters of the century” in their Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists. In 1984, she was commissioned to create an “Easter at the White House” painting, and she is delighted to return to such an inspiring city with My Washington, DC. Kathy invites you to visit her online at kathyjakobsen.com.

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