Phillip Hoose has been once again honored with a Green Earth Book Award. The award is the nation’s first environmental stewardship book award for children and young adult books. Over 80 winning and honor books have been honored since 2005 including Hoose’s Hey, Little Ant and The Race to Save the Lord God Bird. “One… Read more »
Phillip Hoose and “his mates” at FSG are honored by the attention Moonbird received from ALSC and YALSA at the recent American Libraries Association meeting in Seattle. The book about the great survivor B95 was a finalist for the the YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction and received a Sibert Honor. The Robert F. Sibert… Read more »
We thank the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association for this review sprinkled with all of our favorite key words and phrases related to Moonbird: act to make a change, survival, conservation, and interconnection of species. “As he does with every topic he tackles–the ivory-billed woodpecker, civil rights, basketball–Hoose provides interesting details… Read more »
Moonbird has his own comic! Thank you to 3DTOPO Inc. for taking flight with this fabulous tribute to B95 and the book on the The Hub: Your Connection to Teen Reads. Our thanks to Diane Colson as well for her lovely review! Photo credits clockwise from top left: American Bird Conservatory; New York Times Green Blog; Scielo.org.; Moonbird cover; Encyclopedia… Read more »
The upcoming Common Core standards have created a healthy debate amongst educators about the role of non-fiction in the classroom. The Common Core English Language Arts standards, now adopted in 45 states, are calling for elementary students to be reading 50% non-fiction with that percentage building to 70% by the conclusion of high school. On one… Read more »
Phillip Hoose is proud to share the honor of Finalist for the 2012 YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction Award with his fellow Macmillian Children’s authors.
Jessica Tackett of the blog, Her Life With Books decided to forgo the madness of Black Friday and read non-fiction instead. Her “exceedingly short review” of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 simply trumps all before it.
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 soars with all these other fine non-fiction titles as School Library Journal Best Books 2012! Congratulations everyone and thank you SLJ!
The picture book, Hey, Little Ant is included in Mary Pipher’s forthcoming book, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture, her look at the psychological and cultural factors that keep us from facing our enormous global perils, mainly global climate change. “This delightful book has the staying power of an Aesop fable. Children and adults… Read more »