George Washington Carver, plant doctor
By: by Mirna Benitez ; illustrated by Meryl Henderson.
Contributors: Henderson, Meryl, ill.
Series: Real readers
Publisher: Raintree Pub.
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Juvenile literature.; Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943.; African American agriculturists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Agriculturists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Peanuts -- Juvenile literature.; Agriculturists.; African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: A biography of the agriculturist for beginning readers, chronicling his struggle to get an education, his work at the Tuskegee Institute, and how he helped popularize peanuts as a cash crop in the South.

Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the African American scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.