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A Pocketful of Goobers: A Story About George Washington Carver (Creative Minds Biography)
A Pocketful of Goobers A Story About George Washington Carver - Creative Minds Biography Author:Barbara Mitchell, Peter E. Hanson (Illustrator) Back cover: — There wasn't anything that George Carver couldn't grow. He knew almost everything there was to know about plants. But when the boll weevil hit the South in the early 1900s, not even George knew how to save the cotton crops. It was then that George turned his attention to goobers. George Washington Carver took the common goober - tod... more »ay's peanut - and created hundred of useful products from it, turning goobers into a very profitable staple for the South. At the same time, this very special man passed on to everyone who knew him the importance of following one's dreams.« less