(1897-11-07)November 7, 1897 New Haven, Connecticut
Died
April 26, 1976(1976-04-26) (aged 78) Hanover, New Hampshire, US
Occupation
Writer, illustrator
Period
1933–?
Genre
Children's literature
Spouse
Margaret Mitchell Robertson, M.D.
Children
Susan, John
Website
armstrongsperry.com
Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and indigenous American cultures. He is best known for his 1941 Newbery Medal-winning book Call It Courage.
Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical...
a 1940 children's novel written and illustrated by American author ArmstrongSperry. The novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's...
the Flying Cloud is a children's novel written and illustrated by ArmstrongSperry. It was first published in 1935 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in...
version of The Story of Hiawatha by Florence Shaw. Allen Chaffee and ArmstrongSperry adapted the story for a Random House prose edition in 1951. Longfellow's...
The Good Master Honor Elizabeth Gray Vining Young Walter Scott Honor ArmstrongSperry All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud Honor 1937 Ruth Sawyer...
frontier in a tale of gun theft and trading. The novel, illustrated by ArmstrongSperry was first published in 1936 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1937...
Gerrit P. Wilder, Honolulu botanist, and Mrs. Wilder, historian; Dr. ArmstrongSperry and Dr. Stanley Ball, he was part of the Bishop Museum scientific research...
Run? Anya Seton – My Theodosia Georges Simenon – Strange Inheritance ArmstrongSperry – Call It Courage Cecil Street Death at the Helm They Watched by Night...
Sobrepeña Fermín Solís Konstantin Somov Suzy Spafford Lancelot Speed ArmstrongSperry Art Spiegelman Peter Spier Minnie Dibdin Spooner Bob Staake Ralph Steadman...
(Westport) Sarah Lanman Smith (Norwich) Victoria Leigh Soto (Bridgeport) ArmstrongSperry (Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven) Benjamin Spock (New Haven) Edward...
Spence (born 1947, Scotland) LaVyrle Spencer (1864–1926, England) ArmstrongSperry (1897–1976, US) György Spiró (born 1946, Hungary) Francis Spufford...
Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953) 1897 – ArmstrongSperry, American author and illustrator (d. 1976) 1898 – Margaret Morris,...
Smith Vincent D. Smith Robert Smithson Louise Hammond Willis Snead ArmstrongSperry Otto Stark William Starkweather Frank Stella Joseph Stella Inga Stephens...
botanist; Mrs. Wilder, historian; Kenneth Emory, ethnologist; Dr. ArmstrongSperry, writer and illustrator; and Dr. Stanley Ball. The vessel was a complete...
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud, a children's book by ArmstrongSperry This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flying...
London's short story "The House of Mapuhi" in South Sea Tales (1911) and ArmstrongSperry's novel Call It Courage, which won the Newbery Medal in 1941. Hikueru...
Lee, ill. The Golden Galleon (1936) Brothers of the Frontier (1938), ArmstrongSperry, ill. Shaggy, the Horse from Wyoming (1939), E. R. Bradley, ill. Teen-Age...
Rawlings – When the Whippoorwill Dr. Seuss – Horton Hatches the Egg ArmstrongSperry – Call It Courage Jakob Streit – Beatuslegenden Geoffrey Trease – Cue...