Look out Johnny Kaw. Move over Paul Bunyan. There's a new gal in town and she's not pleased with what those guys have done to the prairie. Kansas Katie sets out to spruce things up a bit.When Katie finds her big yellow cat, Buttercup, hiding in some "weeds," she discovers the way to make Kansas beautiful. Sunflowers!Don't miss this Kansas tall tale. Once you read her story, you'll agree, "ain't no other farmer like Kansas Katie."Kansas Katie also includes a song, a cookie recipe, and information about sunflowers.

Kansas: The Sunflower State, is a part of the Discover America Series. Kansas celebrates the people and culture with beautiful images and engaging facts as well as describing the history, industry, environment, and sports that make this state unique.

From Van Gogh's vibrant masterpiece to its ubiquitous presence in American crafts, from sunflower oil to sunflower seeds to The Sunflower State (Kansas), the friendly sunflower is firmly planted as an intrinsic part of our culture and our daily lives. With its sunny disposition, bright colors, and surprising versatility, it is without a doubt one of the most popular flowers around. A comprehensive guide to this remarkable flower, The Ultimate Sunflower Book features descriptions of the different species, diagrams of planting schemes, tips on growing giant sunflowers, and step-by-step instructions for creating beautiful arrangements. It also teaches readers how to dry and prepare the flowers for use in cooking and crafts and includes numerous recipes and a host of fun projects. With its gorgeous photographs, eye-catching design, and hardy jacketed paper-over-board format, The Ultimate Sunflower Book is one reference that gardeners, craft enthusiasts, flower arrangers, cooks, and all fans of the sunflower will enjoy leafing through again and again.

Rather than pledging allegiance to the military effort as dictated by Prussian law in 1867, many devout Anabaptists deemed it prudent to become pioneers in Kansas. The year was 1876 and odd numbered sections of railroad land were being marketed by the Santa Fe across Kansas. Towns developed around train depots; local shopping became available. Marie Harder Epp was born in America to these relocated Anabaptists. She was a Kansas Mennonite farmer and also the village poet. Her poems, written for oral delivery, tell the story of life in Holland and West Prussia following the Reformation, the relocation to Kansas, and the creation of a church community on the tall grass prairies. A church was organized to focus these hard-working Germans on divine realities as they buried their dead, married their young, and dealt with the harsh prairie winds. Marie's poems also describe the changeover from buggies to cars, from German to English, and from isolation to global outreach. With time, the Anabaptists learned through cultural adaptation that they could be both staunch Mennonites and also patriotic Americans.

Presents the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, social life and customs, state events and attractions, and notable people of Kansas, which is named for the Kaw (Kansa) Indians.

A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.