"Children have imagination enough to grasp almost any idea and respond to it, if it is presented to them honestly and without a patronizing pat on the head."
Books:
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Amazon: River Sea Of Brazil
Black Falcon
Call It Courage (1941 Newbery Award)
Danger To Windward
Great River, Wide Land
Hull Down For Action
John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor
Pacific Islands Speaking
South Of Cape Horn
Storm Canvas
Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe
thanks to:
http://www.ogram.org/sperry/papers/OnWriting.shtml
http://wwhttp://www.ogram.org/sperry/papers/NewberyAcceptance.shtmlw.edupaperback.org/authorbios/sperrya.html
www.amazon.com