Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Call It Courage 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 Honolulu 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 Tahiti" 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 Library of Congress 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 Polynesia, 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 Bora Bora 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.