CALL IT COURAGE

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Summary: Awesome Story!
Review: Call It Courage is about a young boy named Mafatu who lost his mother to the sea when he was only 3. Everyone thinks he's a coward and he sails off with his dog, Uri, and his albatross, Kivi to seek courage. My favorite part was when Mafatu was sliding down the dried up lava on a huge leaf. This is a wonderful, heart-warming story about having courage and facing your fears. That's why I think that you would want to read this book!

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Summary: Call it Courage
Review: Call it Courage is about a young boy named Mafatu. Mafatu is afraid of the sea because it killed his mother. He is always made fun of by the other Polynesian boys his age. Eventually, he decides to sail away. Mafatu lands on a cannibalistic island. He escapes the cannibals and returns home a courageous boy. I read this book at school and thought it was great. The only problem was all of the foreign words, most of which were not explained. Otherwise, this was an awesome book and I thoroughly encourage you to read this it. You will not be disappointed!

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Summary: The Boy Who Was Afraid
Review: 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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Summary: Call It Courage
Review: I like the book Call It Courage because it was about a boy named Mafatu and his way of life . It also told about how Mafatu had courage and how he was brave and strong after his mother was taken by the sea. This book was full of adventure.

The best part of the book was when Mafatu found the statue on the forbidden island. He was walking through the woods and was surprised to find this statue in the middle of nowhere.

The two story elements that were the most vivid were the theme and the characters. The theme was cconguering your fear. Mafatu needed to face his fears of survive on his own. He was successful throughout the story. The author did a good job of describing Mafatu and the people he met. I was able to see in my mind what each person looked like.

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Summary: The great adventure
Review: 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.

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Summary: Call It Courage
Review: 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.

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Summary: Call it courage by Armstrong Sperry
Review: The story of Mafatu's adventure on the isle of the eaters of men is unforgettable. Some 30 years ago I first encountered this book in my elementary school library and it remains vivid in my memory. It is the story of a young boy, Mafatu, who lives on an island yet fears the sea that killed his mother years ago. Mafatu decides to face his greatest and deepest fear--the sea--and sets off on an adventure, ending up not only conquering his fear of the sea but successfully confronting such life-threatening challenges as a hammerhead shark, a sharp-tusked wild boar and, finally, angry man-eating islanders. It is the kind of story where just when you think things can't get worse, they do. But Mafatu finds out that he is able to overcome every challenge and returns to his home island in triumph.

Mafatu's story should be required reading for children preparing to face a world every bit as dangerous as the open ocean and filled with hazards no less serious than sharks and cannibals.

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Summary: Call It Courage
Review: This book is about a young boy named Mafatu that has lost his mother to a terrible sea accident. Ever since he has feared the sea. Due to this is is constantly being made fun of. While the other boys are out in their canoes he is helping make nets back on land. Mafatu decides to run away and face his fear. He takes his dog Uri and sets off to sea. He lands on an island and here learns what it takes to conquer the sea and has wonderful adventures that help build his courage. I enjoyed this book and it was very easy to read.

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Summary: Call It Courage
Review: This book is about a young boy named Mafatu that has lost his mother to a terrible sea accident. Ever since he has feared the sea. Due to this is is constantly being made fun of. While the other boys are out in their canoes he is helping make nets back on land. Mafatu decides to run away and face his fear. He takes his dog Uri and sets off to sea. He lands on an island and here learns what it takes to conquer the sea and has wonderful adventures that help build his courage. I enjoyed this book and it was very easy to read.

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Summary: Finding courage within oneself.
Review: This short book by Sperry (1897-1976) won the 1941 Newbery Medal for best contribution to American children's literature. Mafatu, a Polynesian boy of 15 years old, has an intense fear of the ocean. At the age of three he was nearly killed when his mother drowned. Now he must conquer his fears. He goes off on his own and finds the courage within him. The story (probably for ages 9 to 13) starts off on the island of Hikueru in the Tuamotu Archipelago east of Tahiti at a time before European ships and missionaries had arrived. Apparently, Sperry, who had traveled throughout the South Pacific, based his story on an old and true Polynesian tale.