Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} by Armstrong Sperry Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 6606ef44eea9dfd3 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Call It Courage. by Armstrong Sperry Illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. MacMillan, New York, 1940. Newbery Medalist, 1941. This book is the reason most people still know of Sperry's work. It has been in print continuously for nearly sixty years, a testament to the endurance of this story's appeal, and the influence of a Newbery Medal. Most editions -- in English and the more than two-dozen languages it has been translated into (see six of them below) -- include ten full-page blue- and-white illustrations, sundry smaller illustrations, marginalia, and chapter headings. Earlier editions, seen at left, also had illustrated endpapers and a buckrum cloth cover on the front and back boards, with a woodcut inspired by Polynesian tapa cloth designs, which is used as the background pattern on this page. In the United Kingdom, Call It Courage was published under the title The Boy Who Was Afraid . Call it Courage was filmed for television with a teleplay by Ben Masselink and a narration by Gerald Pearce, and appeared on The Wonderful World of Disney for the first time in April 1974. From the dustjacket: Mafatu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he was the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a race of Polynesians who worshipped courage, and he was named Stout Heart, he fear and avoided the sea, till everyone branded him a coward. When he could no longer bear their taunts and jibes, he determined to conquer that fear or be conquered -- so he went off in his canoe, alone except for his little dog and pet albatross. A storm gave him his first challenge. Then days on a desert island found him resourceful beyond his own expectation. This is the story of how his courage grew and how he finally returned home exhausted in body, but strong and fearless in spirit -- truly Mafatu, the Stout Heart. This is a legend. It happened many years ago, but even today the people of Hikueru sing this story and tell it over their evening fires. "Whether this author is telling of clipper ships, of the days of the covered wagon, of the South Sea islands, he writes always with imagination and integrity. Like all hero legends Mafatu's story has a strength and simplicity that appeals to a wide range in age and is beautifully told. Mr. Sperry's fine drawings have the same spirit of adventure as the story and enhance the feeling, of tropical seas and jungle given in the text. The story reads aloud well and will be useful to storytellers." --New York Times "A boy's character at ten years old is more often influenced by emotion than by reasoning. Something in the conduct of a hero leaps like a spark to light his own spirit. A book with a hero can sometimes bring this about. This is such a book. It is related with unusual skill, carrying along a reader so rapidly he scarcely realizes how well it is being told. The story is wild enough to be remembered, and it cannot be remembered without doing good." --New York Herald Tribune You can send these illustrations from Call It Courage as free virtual postcards (#10, 18 &22)! Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry. Please bear with us as we update the website at a new host! These pages are dedicated to the life and work of Armstrong Wells Sperry, my maternal grandfather (b. Nov. 7, 1897, d. April 26, 1976), who received the American Library Association's John Newbery Medal [off-site link] in 1941 for the most distinguished American children's book published in 1940: Call It Courage . -- Review of a show of his early paintings in the New York Times (1921) "Armstrong Sperry Has Prisoned the Elusive Atmosphere of the South Seas in Water Colors" -- Review of a show of his paintings of the South Pacific, in Advertiser (1925) by Ellen Lewis Buell (1937) , New Haven Register (1941) Journal of National Education Association: "Newbery Medal Book" (1941) The Library Journal: "Armstrong Sperry, 1940 Newbery Winner," by Doris S. Patee (1941) , Review of No Brighter Glory in the New York Herald Tribune (1942) by Elizabeth Rider Montgomery (1949) (1981) in which the actor discussed the powerful influence Call It Courage had on him, growing up in the shadow of his famous father, Henry Fonda. "The Charge of the Tiger Shark." The World Magazine , Feb. 7, 1926, p. 7, with 1 illustration "What Volstead Did for a South Sea Isle" New York Herald Tribune , Sunday, March 28, 1926, p. 8 "Saved from Cannibals by a Stick of Dynamite" The World Magazine , April 25, 1926, pp. 8-9, with 1 illustration "In the Toils of an Octopus" The Literary Digest , May 1, 1926, pp. 60-61 "Ruining a South Sea Paradise to Flavor Soft Drinks" The Literary Digest , May 8, 1926, pp. 58-62 "Cast Alive into the Molten Heart of a Volcano" The World Magazine , May 23, 1926, pp. 8-9,with 2 illustrations "American Films in Tropic " New York Herald Tribune Magazine , Sunday, July 25, 1926, Section VIII, pp. 1-2 The American Girl , June 1933: with 2 illustrations , by Armstrong Sperry (1941) Letter from Irene Smith, May 5, 1941, telling him that Call It Courage had been selected for the Newbery Medal. Letter from Doris S. Patee, May 23, 1941, AWS's editor at MacMillan, discussing the arrangements for the award ceremony. " by Armstrong Sperry (1943) , by Armstrong Sperry (1959) of the Children's Book Section of the on the 50th Anniversary of the Newbery Medal (1972) Letter from Ben Masselink, Feb. 4, 1974, the screenwriter for the Disney production of Call It Courage Letter from Ben Masselink, March 11, 1974. A high-quality 5x7 300 dpi version of the portrait of Armstrong Sperry above [JPEG, 466K], scanned from the original photograph, the headshot he used most often in press releases and on dustjackets. Reproduction quality. Photographs of Armstrong Sperry from the Sperry Papers in the Thetford VT Historical Society Various magazine work by Armstrong Sperry, 1926-1951 A curious oil painting from the 1930s The beginning of my archive of graphics for students to use in projects about the South Seas. A biographical timeline of the early career of Armstrong Sperry. Sources of the information are cited. NOTE: The following five biographical sketches below are copied verbatim from their sources. There are inaccuracies in the content which the page listed above corrects. (1941) by Helen Follett (1941) , by Armstrong Sperry (1951) To Bora-Bora and Back Again: The Story of Armstrong W. Sperry, by Robert R. Barrett (1992) Obituaries of Armstrong Sperry: His father, Sereno Clark Sperry, Sr.: Coming soon ! Instructions to make several string figures from Hikueru (where Mafatu was from), collected by Armstrong Sperry's good friend, ethnologist Kenneth P. Emory. Order new copies of Call It Courage ($11.20), All Sail Set ($12.95) or Wagons Westward ($10.47) on-line at Amazon.com [off-site links] Buy a mug decorated with the dustjackets from every book Armstrong Sperry wrote and illustrated! 11 oz. ceramic mug: $14, 15 oz. ceramic mug: $16, 16 oz. glass mug: $18 -- plus shipping (FREE shipping on orders over $50 through 8/25/02!) [off-site link] Brief introduction to Polynesian languages written by W. D. Alexander in Honolulu in 1865, and information about the Tahitian language with many phrases and pronunciation. [off-site link] Website of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu [off-site link] Hikueru, one of the low islands of the Tuamotu Archipelago of French , where Mafatu of Call It Courage was from: [off-site link] More facts about Hikueru, including maps! [off-site link] Labeled space photographs of part of the Tuamotu Archipelago including Hikueru [off-site link] Index of NASA shuttle images of the Tuamotus [off-site link] a close-up of just Hikueru from space a close-up of just in the Society Islands. University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collection Finding Aid for original manuscripts and illustrations by Armstrong Sperry in the Kerlan Collection (1994) In addition to original materials in the University of Minnesota's Children's Literature Research Collection mentioned above, the carbon typescript of Captain Cook Explores the South Seas (1955) is located at the deGrummond Children's Literature Collection at University of Southern Mississippi, a gift of Armstrong Sperry on June 25, 1969 . An image of page 1 is available on-line, but with the logo of the University superimposed on it. [off-site link] Thetford (VT) Historical Society [off-site link] - My grandmother donated a lot of memorabilia about my grandfather's career to the Thetford Historical Society in the 1970s. The inventory of the Sperry Papers reproduced here was prepared by M.H. Wiencke, April 19, 2001. Items from that collection, "Armstrong Sperry Papers, 1920-1976," which are already at this site or which I have digitzed from their collection are accessible through hyperlinks from the inventory page. Dartmouth College, Baker Library has an entry for "Papers. 1942-1947," which includes the typescripts of two novels published by Macmillan, No Brighter Glory (New York, 1942), and The Rain Forest (New York, 1947), the latter with extensive ms. corrections. Gift of Armstrong Sperry. [off-site link] Yale University [off-site link] has the following listing in their library's on-line card catalog: Title: Modern Tahitian popular songs or ute / sung by Armstrong Sperry ; transcribed by Helen H. Roberts. Published: New Haven : Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, 1932. Location: MUDD, Stacks; Call Number: Vkg18 Location: MUSIC LIBRARY, SML; Call Number: Mu72 R54+ South Sea Tales , eight short stories by about the South Pacific, is in the public domain and available here in its entirety on-line [285K], courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Originally published in 1911 when Armstrong Sperry was 14, he states in his acceptance speech for the Newbery Medal that he had read London in his childhood. This is probably one of the books he read, which sparked his interest in exploring Polynesia for himself, and gave him his first glimpse of the terrible storm which hit Hikueru in 1903. Simon & Schuster, 2002. The story of a girl whose father is a ship's captain, who brings his children on a whaling voyage. My grandfather would have loved this book -- and so will you! [off-site link] List of Award-Winning Books for Kids -- Looking for a good book to read? This is a list from San Fransisco Bay Area School Ratings, compiled from the winners of 15 different prestigious awards for books for young people. [off-site link] Want to know more about The Newbery Medal? [off-site link] The background pattern of this site is based on the woodcut print of the buckram covers of the first printings of Call lt Courage, inspired by Polynesian tapa cloth . The headers are based on the hand lettering in One Day with Manu, One Day with Jambi, and One Day with Tuktu. [PDF] Call It Courage Book by Armstrong Sperry Free Download (128 pages) Free download or read online Call It Courage pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 1940, and was written by Armstrong Sperry. The book was published in multiple languages including , consists of 128 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, historical story are , . The book has been awarded with Newbery Medal (1941), and many others. Call It Courage PDF Details. Author: Armstrong Sperry Original Title: Call It Courage Book Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 128 pages First Published in: 1940 Latest Edition: April 30th 1990 Awards: Newbery Medal (1941) category: fiction, historical, historical fiction, young adult, classics, childrens, adventure Formats: ePUB(Android), audible mp3, audiobook and kindle. The translated version of this book is available in Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian / Malaysian, French, Japanese, German and many others for free download. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in Call It Courage may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. Call It Courage Summary & Study Guide. Call It Courage Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion on Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry. Mafatu is afraid of the ocean. As a young member of the tribe on the Polynesian island Hikueru, a people for whom sailing and fishing are a fundamental way of life, Mafatu’s fear is a major social stigma. Although he experienced the great trauma at the age of three of nearly drowning and seeing his mother die, those around him have little sympathy or understanding for his fears. Even his father is ashamed of the way Mafatu behaves. As a result of his inability to go out in a canoe and fish, Mafatu is left behind to build spears, nets, and other necessary tools. Other youth his age tease and reject Mafatu, and one night he overhears their taunts and cannot stand it any longer. He doesn’t want to continue to live with his fear and his shame, so he resolves to go out alone and face his inner demons on the sea. Mafatu takes a canoe and with his canine companion Uri and their albatross friend Kivi, he heads out toward the open ocean. Mafatu has not gone prepared however, and a storm nearly destroys his canoe and sweeps away the few things he brought with him, even his clothing. Uri and Mafatu drift in the canoe for days, growing more starved, dehydrated, and sun burnt. Just as it seems all hope is lost, an island appears in the distance. The current carries the canoe towards this island, and although the coral reef surrounding it smashes the canoe, Mafatu and Uri make it to shore alive. When Mafatu comes to, he drinks some fresh water from a stream and bandages a cut on his leg. Revived by this, he begins to explore his new surroundings. The island has thick jungle and an inactive volcano at its center, and this terrain is strange to Mafatu, who comes from an island of flat plains and few palm trees. Towards the top of the volcano there is a plateau which offers an excellent view of the whole island. On the other side of the island from the beach upon which he landed, Mafatu discovers a clearing with a pyramid and idol in it. This is a sacred site of sacrifice for the savage eaters-of-men, a cannibalistic tribe of which Mafatu has heard terrible stories. He is extremely frightened, because although there is no one on the island now, they are sure to return at some time. However, he sees a well-made spearhead at the shrine, and knowing it will be very useful to him he snatches it up before running back to the plateau. Mafatu will use this good vantage point to carefully watch out for any sign that the eaters-of-men are returning. Meanwhile, there is much work for Mafatu to do in order to survive and make himself comfortable on the island. All of his time on Hikueru constructing tools and perfecting those skills is now coming in very handy. He builds a fire to cook his food, and a shelter from bamboo and woven leaves. Mafatu begins to make a new canoe that he can use to return home. He creates all manner of tools, such as nets, fishhooks, bowls, and mats. Mafatu replaces his lost clothing, and creates spears and knifes from a whale skeleton he is lucky to find. He makes a raft to use until the canoe is complete, and a fish trap for catching more food farther offshore. There is one problem with the fish trap, however, and this is the hammerhead shark that regularly raids the trap before Mafatu can get what he has caught. One day Mafatu goes out with a knife to end this trouble once and for all. When he sees the shark he grows afraid, however, and can do nothing even as the shark completely destroys the fish trap. It isn’t until Uri is knocked into the water that Mafatu is driven to act. He dives in to save his friend from being eaten, and stabs the shark with the knife, succeeding in killing it. Mafatu helps Uri back onto the raft, grateful to have found the courage to rescue his companion. This is the first of several such victories for Mafatu. One day while climbing to the plateau to look out for the eaters-of-men, a wild boar charges at Mafatu. He wants to run away but instead acts quickly and uses a spear to kill the wild boar. This is a feat of bravery that even the warriors of his tribe have not succeeded in, and Mafatu returns to his campsite for a triumphant feast. He makes a necklace of the boar’s teeth which he cannot wait for his tribe to see. Once the canoe is finished, Mafatu takes it out to test it and to retrieve that day’s catch from the fish trap. Unfortunately his knife falls into the ocean while he does so. Mafatu dives down to get it back, because he would hate to lose it, but is attacked by a large octopus while he is at the ocean floor by the coral reef. Mafatu stabs wildly at it, and he is quickly becoming desperate as his lungs scream for oxygen. It seems as if the octopus is going to win, when one well-aimed stab hits the creature in its eye. Mafatu makes it back to the canoe, gasping for air. Distracted by all of these events, Mafatu did not check for the eaters-of-men that day, which was a huge mistake because they arrive the next morning. Mafatu observes the beginning of their ritual at the sacred site, trying to remain hidden, but he is discovered by four of the savages. They chase him back to his beach, where he leaps into his canoe and tries to get away. At first the eaters-of-men swim after him, but then they turn back and follow in their own canoes. They follow Mafatu out into the ocean and pursue him for over a day before finally giving up. It would seem Mafatu is home free. However, the currents are now working against him, and he has difficulty making any progress towards his island of Hikueru. As days pass the food and water he brought runs out, and Mafatu once more grows dehydrated and weak. Finally, he notices signs of land in the distance, and realizes with great joy and relief that it is his home. On the beach, the people of his tribe have gathered to see this stranger that is approaching. Even his own father does not recognize Mafatu at first, but when they understand who he is they are amazed. Mafatu’s father proudly announces his son’s bravery, and the tale of Mafatu’s adventures is told for generations to come.