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If sports are more your thing, you’ll find many
inspirational stories. Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson both
fought against racism in their respective sports (track and
baseball). Surya Bonaly broke figure skating records with
her feats on the ice, and “she did it on her own terms.” Pat
Tillman was a football player and a soldier.
Or maybe you’d like some exciting footsteps to follow. Open
a book and find Mavis Batey, who was a secret code-buster
during World War II. Robert Gould Shaw led a charge of Black
Union soldiers during the Civil War. Annie Oakley and
Calamity Jane were both gun-totin’ women of the West. Witold
Pilecki was captured on purpose during World War II,
so he could spy inside Nazi prisons.
And if they don’t inspire you, keep looking. You’ll find
plenty of ordinary, everyday heroes and heroines here and in
real life.
We all need someone to emulate, someone who makes us want to
be better and do better. In The Book of
Heroes and The Book of Heroines, your child will
find uplifting (and unique) footprints to follow.
Here, he’ll read a variety of mini-biographies of people
from the pages of history and mythology, actors and their
characters, comic books and people who do super heroic
things, writers and readers, warriors, spies, animals, and
others who will pique her interest. Each page is awash in
color and just-right detail (these books are, after all,
from the National Geographic folks), as authors Stephanie
Warren Drimmer and Crispin Boyer give your child plenty to
choose from.
It may, in fact, be hard for kids to pick who to read about
next.
Also nice: these books cross-reference one another, and are
actually relatively gender-balanced, so give The Book of
Heroes and The Book of Heroines to your
eight-to-14-year-old. These are surely books to look up.
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