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Some of the most famous people in the world have endured trials and tribulations that ultimately helped carve their character — and in some cases, a pivotal person in their lives then helped them make distinguished contributions to advance the course of human history.
Tapping into this truth, Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo, a bestselling author, has devoted himself to creating a new children's books series called the "Turnabout Tales" for America's families.
The first one to be published is all about an inventor many people thought they knew.
Out this Tuesday, March 21, from HarperCollins/Zonderkidz, is a book about Thomas Alva Edison called "The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison."
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"I love history," Arroyo, based in New Orleans, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.
"And when I'm not reading mysteries, I'm reading history and biographies," he said.
Yet it was a nugget from a biographical tome on Edison that essentially stopped Arroyo in his tracks when he discovered it, he said.
Raymond Arroyo's new illustrated book, out March 21, is "The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison," published by HarperCollins/Zonderkidz. (Raymond Arroyo)
"I came across an Edison biography," he said, "and there was a line in it that he wrote late in life. He said, ‘My mother was the making of me. She let me follow my bent.’"
Edison, born in 1847, went on to say, as Arroyo noted, that "if it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never have become an inventor.'"
Arroyo said, "I had never heard this piece of Edison's life. So I started digging back into some other biographies and pulled out this story."
Thomas A. Edison, in this photo, exhibits a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp, which gave 16 candlepower of illumination, in contrast to the ultimate in today's achievement, a 50,000-watt, 150,000-candlepower lamp. (Getty Images)
Each of the "Turnabout Tales" in the new book series, Arroyo said, will capture "a bit of lost or neglected history that presents us with these figures whom we thought we knew, or perhaps didn't know at all, at a crisis point or crossroad in their life."
Often, he said, these people were told they "couldn't do" something or were told, "You're not good enough."
And in that critical moment, they made a decision "that changed all of history and opened up their destiny."
Each of the "Turnabout Tales" will capture "a bit of lost or neglected history" about key figures in history "at a crisis point or crossroad in their life."
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