Dream Big - T.A. Barron

Dream Big: The Inspiring Young Heroes of the Barron Prize

“This inspires young people to change the world.”

—Jane Goodall

This 45-minute documentary film profiles a diverse group of passionate young people who are making the world a better place.

Featuring:

Profiles of Seven Heroic Young People



A Special Interview with Jane Goodall



Narration by author T. A. Barron

We are working hard to make this documentary film widely available! If you would like to be notified as soon as you can purchase this film, visit www.tabarron.com.

Dream Big is a part of a comprehensive set of heroes materials for educators. MATERIALS INCLUDE: • Young Heroes Activity Guide, with dozens of classroom-tested ideas for engaging students • Heroes Bibliography, listing over 200 books about heroes • The Hero’s Trail, by T.A. Barron • Reader’s Guide to The Hero’s Trail

For more information, visit www.tabarron.com.

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes

The Barron Prize is proud to partner with:

National Geographic Education Foundation • Roots & Shoots, a program of the Jane Goodall INstitute • Youth Service America • Student Conservation Association

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes honors outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to people and our planet. Their leadership and courage make them true heroes – and inspirations to us all. To learn more about the award, visit www.barronprize.org.

T.A. Barron T.A. Barron has always found inspiration in heroes. As a youth on a Colorado ranch, he loved hearing campfire tales of people whose courage and wisdom helped them triumph. Today, he writes novels that feature heroic young people—ranging from Merlin in The Lost Years of Merlin epic to Elli and Tamwyn in The Great Tree of Avalon trilogy. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Currie, and their five children. Visit his web site at www.tabarron.com.

The Gloria

Barron Prize for

Young Heroes All proceeds from the sale of this film support the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

Heroes Ancient, Modern, and Mythic: A Bibliography

Non-Fiction Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Random House, 1998. Alvarado, Ph.D., Rudolph Valier. Critical Lives: The Life and Work of Thomas Edison. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. Armstrong, Lance. It’s Not About the Bike. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. Axelrod, Toby. Rescuers Defying the Nazis: Non-Jewish Teens Who Rescued Jews. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. Barron Prize [Web site] 2001: http://www.barronprize.org [accessed 29 May, 2001]. Barron, T.A. The Hero’s Trail: A Guide for a Heroic Life. New York: Philomel Books, 2002. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Black Potatoes. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Beals, Melba Patillo. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High. New York: Pocket Books, 1995. Berson, Robin Kadison. Young Heroes In World History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. Black Elk, Nicholas, as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow). Black Elk Speaks. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Block, Gay and Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. New York: TV Books, 1992. Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators: A History of Heroes and the Imagination. New York: Random House, 1992. Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima. New York: Random House Children’s Books, 2001. Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1949. Carson, Ben. Gifted Hands. New York: Zondervan Publishing, 1996. Chadha, Yogesh. Gandhi: A Life. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. Chase, Mary Ellen. The Bible and the Common Reader. New York: MacMillan, 1944. Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci. Baltimore: Penguin, 1959. Coles, M.D., Robert. The Call of Service. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. ——. Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made A Difference. New York: Random House, 2000, 2001. Colton, Larry. Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn. New York: Warner Books, 2001. Cook, Kathy. “Ryan’s Well.” Reader’s Digest, June 2001, 144A-144C. Dash, Joan. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women’s Factory Strike of 1909. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Davis, Burke. Black Heroes of the American Revolution. New York: Odyssey Classics, 1992. Day, John. Toward Freedom: The Autobiography if Hawaharlal Nehru. New York: John Day, 1941. Detrich, Terry and John. The Spirit of Lo: An Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Journey. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Mind Matters, Inc., 2000.

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Dinn, Sheila. Hearts of Gold: A Celebration of Special Olympics and Its Heroes. Blackbirch Marketing, 1996. Dorsey, George A., and Alfred L. Kroeber. Traditions of the Arapaho (Field Columbia Museum, Publication 81, Anthropological Series, Vol.V: Chicago, 1903), 300. Reprinted in Stith Thompson's Tales of the North American Indians (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1929), 128. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1949). Douglas, Frederick. Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglas. New York: Dover, 1995. Durrett, Deanne. Unsung Heroes of World War II: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers. New York: Facts on File, 1998. Einstein, Albert. Ideas and Opinions. New York: Crown, 1954. Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Vintage/Random House, Inc., 1996. Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom. Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Clarion, 2000. Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. New York: Washington Square Press, 1997. Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Mineola, New York: Dover, 1996. Freedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York: Clarion, 1998. Garrison, Mary. Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing, 2002. Gibbon, Peter H. A Call to Heroism. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, 2002. Giles, Herbert A. The Chinese Biographical Dictionary. London and Shanghai: 1898, 372. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1949), 189.

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The Giraffe Project [Web site] 1995-2000: http://www.giraffe.org/heroes.html [accessed 29 May, 2001]. Glenn, John, with Nick Taylor. John Glenn: A Memoir. New York: Bantam, 1999. Graham, Katherine. Personal History. New York: Knopf, 1997. Hallie, Philip P. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Harding, Vincent. Hope and History. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1990. Haskins, Jim. One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Hazell, Rebecca. The Barefoot Book of Heroic Children. New York: Barefoot Books, 2000. Hertog, Susan. Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life. New York: Anchor Books, Random House, Inc., 1999. Hickam, Homer. October Sky: A Memoir. New York: Dell Books, 1999. His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Ethics for the New Millennium. New York: Riverhead/ Penguin Putnam, 1999. ——. Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama. San Francisco: Harper, 1991. The Hitachi Foundation - Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community [Web site] 2001: http://www.hitachi.yoshiyama_1999/1999awardees.html [accessed 29 May, 2001]. Hoose, Phillip. It's Our World, Too! Boston, New York, Toronto, London: Little, Brown, 1993. ____. We Were There Too: Young People in U.S. History. New York: Farrar, 2001. Hreljac, Ryan and Susan. Ryan’s Well Foundation Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1. Ontario, Canada: 2001. Hudson, Wade. Afro-Bets Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers. Orange, New Jersey: Just Us Books, 1989.

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Igus, Tayomi, et al. Book of Black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle. Orange, New Jersey: Just Us Books, 1991. Ivey, Page. “South Carolina Children Repay Debt of Kindness.” Daily Herald, 11 November, 2001, A15. Jefferson County School District N. R-1. Kids Explore: Kids Who Make a Difference. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Join Muir Publications, 1997. Keller, Helen. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life. Introduction by Lou Ann Walker. New York: Penguin, Signet Classic, 1988. Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage-Memorial Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Kuklin, Susan. Igbal Masih and the Crusades Against Child Slavery. New York: Holt, 1998. _____. Irrepressible Spirit: Conversations with Human Rights Activists. New York: Philomel, 1996. Lansky, Bruce, ed. Girls to the Rescue Book No. 2: Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World. Minnetonka, Minnesota: Meadowbrook Press, 1996. Layden, Joe. Against the Odds. New York: Scholastic, 1997 “Lending A Hand.” People, October 2001. Levine, Ellen. A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese-Americans and World War II. New York: Putnam, 1995. _____. Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. New York: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2000. Levine, Karen. Hana’s Suitcase: A True Story. Albert Whitman, 2003. Lewis, Barbara A. Kids with Courage. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 1992. Linnea, Sharon. Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994. Manchester, William. The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

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Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. New York: Little, Brown, 1995. Martin, Katherine. Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them. Novato, California: New World Library, 1999. Masters, Anthony. Heroic Stories. Saint Blazey, Cornwall, United Kingdom: Kingfisher Books, 1994. The Max Warburg Courage Awards [Web site] 1998: http://www.maxcourage.org/essays/winners2000.cfm. [accessed 29 May, 2001]. McCann, Michelle Roehm, et al. Girls Who Rocked the World 2: From Harriet Tubman to Mia Hamm. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Gareth Stevens, Inc., 2000. McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Sisters in Strength: American Women Who Made a Difference. New York: Holt, 2000. Meyers, Barlow. Champions All the Way. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1944. Michelmore, Peter. "Born To Win." Reader's Digest, April 1999, 62-68. Moeller, Bill and Jan. Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces: A Photographic History. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1995. My Hero [Web site] 2000: http://www.myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=s_hawking [accessed 29 May, 2001]. Namiotka, Jim. "A Shot of Adrenalin." Reader's Digest, May 1996, 65. New York Times, 15 November, 1960. In Ruby Bridges. Through My Eyes (New York: Scholastic, 1999), 16. Page, Michael, and Robert Ingpen, Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were. Surrey, Great Britain: Landsdowne Press, 1985. Paige, Leroy (Satchel), as told to David Lipman. Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pine, Joslyn, ed. Wits and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of Quotations. Mineola, New York: Dover Inc., 2001.

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let It Shine! The Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. New York: Gulliver, 2000. Rivas, Maite Suarez, ed. Latino Read-Aloud Stories. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1999. Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Rusch, Elizabeth. Generation Fix. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words Publishing, 2002. Ryan’s Well Foundation [Web site] 2001: http://www.ryanswell.ca. [accessed 29 May, 2001]. Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1974. Schlissel, Lillian. Black Frontiers: A History of African-American Heroes in the Old West. New York: Simon & Schuster (Juv.), 1995. Schwab, Gustav. Gods and Heroes: Myths and Epics of Ancient Greece. New York: Random House, 1946. Stanley, Diane. Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. Stanley, Phyllis M. American Environmental Heroes (Collective Biographies). Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, 1996. Starbridge, Saran. “For Future Generations.” Living Planet (Winter 2000): 50. Staver, Barry. "Boy of Action." People, 19 June, 1995, 121-122. Stepanek, Mattie J.T., ed. Boys Who Rocked the World: From King Tut to Tiger Woods. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words Publishing, 2001. Stuart, Jesse. The Thread That Runs So True: A Mountain School Teacher Tells His Story. New York: Scribner, 1949. The Terry Fox Foundation [Web site] 2002: http://www.terryfoxrun.org. [accessed 3 January, 2002]. Vermeij, Geerat. Privileged Hands. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Vittorini, Nancy. Everyday Heroes. New York: Continuum, 2000.

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Vollbracht, James. Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture that Cares for Kids. New York: Penguin, 2001. Yearwood, Lori Teresa. "Archie Against the Odds." Reader's Digest, October 1999, 102.

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Fiction This list is necessarily incomplete, given the enormous number and variety of truly wonderful and timeless books featuring heroic characters. However, our librarian friends have suggested that even an incomplete list would be potentially useful. The following titles have been most widely suggested. Please feel free to suggest any additional titles that ought to be included. Aesop. The Complete Fables. New York: Penguin Putnam. Penguin Classics, 1998. Alexander, Lloyd. The High King. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1968. Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. New York: Orchard Books, 1990. Barron, T.A. The Lost Years of Merlin. New York: Philomel, 1996. Calhoun, Dia. Aria of the Sea. Thorndike Press, 2002. Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. New York: Putnam, 1977. Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer. New York: Harper Trophy, 2002. Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. New York: Yearling, 2002. Cushman, Karen. The Midwife’s Apprentice. New York: Clarion, 1995. Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl. New York: Scholastic, 1992. Eckert, Allan W. Incident at Hawk’s Hill. New York: Bantam, 1971. Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. Fletcher, Susan. Shadow Spinner. New York: Atheneum, 1998. George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. New York: HarperCollins, 1987. Jordan, Sherryl. Secret Sacrament. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. New York: Yearling, 1973. Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

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Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. South Holland, Illinois: Dell, 1989. MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. New York: HarperCollins, 1985. Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur. New York: Modern Library, 1994. Morpurgo, Michael. Kensuke’s Kingdom. New York: Scholastic, 2003. Murphy, Jim. A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy. New York: Clarion, 1998. O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1971. Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard. New York: Clarion, 2001. Paterson, Katherine. Jip: His Story. New York: Lodestar, 1996. Philip, Neil. Retold. The Arabian Nights. New York: Orchard Books, 1994. Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Speare, Elizabeth George. Sign of the Beaver. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Sperry, Armstrong. Call It Courage. New York: Alladin Books, MacMillan, 1940. Suarez, Virgil, ed. and Delia Poey, ed. Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1996. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Ullman, James Ramsey. Banner in the Sky. J.P. Lippincott, 1954. Wells, Rosemary. Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories. New York: Viking, 1999. White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. New York: HarperCollins, 1952. White, T. H. The Once and Future King. New York: Putnam, 1939, 1940. Wood, Ted, with Numpa Afraid of Hawk. A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee. Walker, 1995. Yep, Laurence. Dragon’s Gate. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Yolen, Jane. Girl in a Cage. New York: Philomel, 2002.

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Picture Books This list is necessarily incomplete, given the enormous number and variety of truly wonderful and timeless books featuring heroic characters. However, our librarian friends have suggested that even an incomplete list would be potentially useful. The following titles have been most widely suggested. Please feel free to suggest any additional titles that ought to be included. Atkins, Jeannine. Aani and the Tree Huggers. New York: Lee and Low, 2000. Barasch, Lynne. Radio Rescue. New York: Farrar/Frances Foster Books, 2000. Brill, Marlene Targ. Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad (On My Own). Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, First Avenue Editions, 1993. Byrd, Robert. Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer. Dutton, 2003. Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Major Taylor Champion Cyclist. Antheneum, 2004. Coles, Robert. The Story of Ruby Bridges. New York: Scholastic, 1995. Cooper, Floyd. Mandela. New York: Philomel, 1996. Demi. Gandhi. New York: McElderry, 2001. Golenbock, Peter. Teammates. New York: Voyager, 1992. Goodall, Jane. The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours. New York: Scholastic, 2001. Haley, Gail E., retold. A Story A Story: an African Tale. New York: Atheneum, 1970. Harness, Cheryl. Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women. New York: Harper Collins, 2001. ____. Young Teddy Roosevelt. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1998. Hayes, Joe. Estrellita de oro/Little Gold Star: A Cinderella Cuento. Cinco Puntos Press, 2000. Hearne, Betsy. Seven Brave Women. New York: Greenwillow, 1997. Hunter, Sara Hoagland. The Unbreakable Code. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland, 1996.

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Johnson, Angela. Just Like Josh Gibson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Krull, Kathleen. Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 2000. Lasky, Kathryn. The Man Who Made Time Travel. Melanie Kroupa Bks./Farrar, 2003. Mochizuki, Ken. Heroes. New York: Lee & Low, 1997. _____. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story. New York: Lee and Low, 1997. Mora, Pat. Tomas and the Library Lady. New York: Knopf, 1997. Parks, Rosa, with Jim Haskins. I Am Rosa Parks. New York: Puffin, 1999. Rappaport, Doreen. A Freedom River. New York: Hyperion, 2000. _____. Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Hyperion, 2001. Reynolds, Peter H. The Dot. Candlewick, 2003. Rosen, Michael J. A School for Pompey Walker. New York: Harcourt, 1995. Ryan, Pam Munoz. When Marian Sang. New York: Scholastic, 2002. Schroeder, Alan. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman. New York: Dial, 1996. Standiford, Natalie. The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto. New York: Random House, 1989. *****

This bibliography of books about heroes and heroism has been prepared, with the help of lots of our librarian friends, as a way to support teachers and librarians who are interested in this subject. We began with the bibliography from The Hero’s Trail and have expanded it significantly. But it is far from complete. It is a work in progress. We welcome your suggestions and ideas! Please send any comments to Barbara Ann Richman at [email protected].

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NATIONAL POLL: KIDS SHORT ON HEROES National survey indicates kids confuse heroes with celebrities BOULDER, CO: Only half of teenagers ages 14 to 18 could name a personal hero, according to a new poll issued by the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. Of those teens who did name a well-known hero, more than half named a movie star, musician, or athlete. “In today’s culture of celebrity these poll results are troubling, but not surprising,” stated T.A. Barron, founder of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes and author of numerous children’s books, including the recently published The Hero’s Trail. “Kids can be easily confused by the fame of a celebrity, when a hero, by contrast, is about character.” Fictitious heroes such as Superman and Spiderman were named twice as often as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi, or Martin Luther King. Female heroes were rarely identified. Apart from family members, only three women were cited as heroes, despite the fact that half the respondents were female. Reality TV has also had an impact on teens’ views of heroes, with one in five teens aspiring to be on the Real World or Survivor, and one in ten considering Ruben Studdard and Kelly Clarkson heroes because they won American Idol. “We need to teach our children the difference between a hero and a celebrity by telling them stories of heroic people they can look up to,” said Barron. “And we need to remind them that anyone -- regardless of gender, age, or race -- can make a heroic difference in the world.” The survey was originally released in conjunction with the announcement of the 2003 winners of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. The prize, founded by Barron in honor of his mother, is an annual award that honors outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to people and our planet.

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