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Title: CALL IT COURAGE by Armstrong Sperry ISBN: 0-689-71391-6 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: 30 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (61 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Call It Courage
Comment: The book Call It Courage was written by Armstrong Sperry, and is about a boy named Mafatu, which means 'stout heart'. Mafatu, who lives on the pacific island of Hikueru, has an enormous fear of the sea caused by a canoe accident that took his mothers life, and he is constantly mocked with taunts about being a coward. One day he is fed up with it, and along with his dog Uri, he sets out on a canoe to prove to himself and others that he is not a coward. When Mafatu reaches another island, adventure ensues when he has to learn to survive on his own and return to Hikueru with pride and courage.
This book was all right because it was entertaining and interesting, but the thing I didn't like is that it's very simple. I recommend it to a younger age group, it is a good book for young children and people who like simple reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: One grownup who liked it...
Comment: I read this one when I was a kid, probably around fourth or fifth grade, and I loved it.
This is really an incredible story, predating Castaway and Life of Pi by sixty-some years, and still remaining a solid story for today's readers. Mafatu is a boy of about twelve living on the Polynesian island of Hikueru, who has lost his mother to the sea and is deathly afraid of it. One day, to conquer his fear, he sets out himself and winds up a castaway on a volcanic island.
The thing that fascinated me as a child reading this was Mafatu's ingenuity -- the construction of the outrigger canoe, the making of his clothing and food, teaching himself to hunt and build and survive. While I wouldn't have wanted to be so far from home, in some ways I wanted to be him, experiencing that world half a planet away. TV shows like Survivor have nothing on this.
The ambiguous ending (I prefer to think it's a happy one, but that is by no means clear) is a satisfying, if bittersweet, wrapup to one of the greatest, most intense, most incredible adventure stories that any child could ever enjoy. This is highly recommended, both to children who want something a little different to read and to adults who want to remember what it was like when that treefort in the backyard was a gateway to an entirely different world.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Boy Who Was Afraid
Comment: Call it Courage, is the story of Mafatu, a young boy who lost his mother to sea and has ever since been afraid, then he gets sick and tired of the teasing, and runs a way, this book is about his adventures on the sea.
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Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell ISBN: 0440439884 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1971 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli ISBN: 0440402832 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond ISBN: 0064401847 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 17 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry ISBN: 0440227534 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 09 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George ISBN: 0141312424 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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