Want to know what’s gone on around here for the last few millennia? You can’t beat Tilbury’s History in Fifty Series! A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries A History of Travel in 50 Vehicles “This dazzling History in Fifty Series… Read more »
An Excerpt for the Portland Press Herald article by Glenn Jordan, 12/5/18: An intriguing collaboration between the Portland Public Library and Portland High School brought together a local author with roughly 200 ninth-graders Wednesday morning to talk about basketball, race relations and perseverance… . Phil Hoose, who once provided commentary on public access television broadcasts… Read more »
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City receives its fourth starred review. “Hoose balances this exposé of basketball’s racist history with thrilling game accounts, character insight, and great sympathy. Oscar Robertson may be the best-known player from this era, but Crispus Attucks’s basketball coach, Ray Crowe, who molded the teams, becomes… Read more »
The Indy Star recently review Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City saying, “Most Hoosiers already know this story — through books, TV specials, or newspaper stories. But this latest telling — about a black high school basketball team triumphs over racial injustice in 1950s Indianapolis — actually manages to be revelatory…” —Indy Star Read… Read more »
It is hard not to use basketball analogies when speaking of Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City and the brilliant team the book depicts. With the arrival of the latest review from BCCB, Attucks has scored a third starred review. ★ A powerful, awe-inspiring basketball-driven history.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review… Read more »
Phillip Hoose was presented with the 2018 Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Book Award for his full body of work in a ceremony in Washington, DC. The Children’s Book Guild of DC is a professional organization of authors, illustrators and children’s literature specialists promoting high standards in children’s literature since 1945. Here is the… Read more »
What does the world need more than a “Building Empathy Library”? Hey, Little Ant is honored to join such strong books in Lakeshore Learning’s collection.
“I just learned that Roberta Pressel, the Macmillan designer who designed covers for my books Moonbird and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, passed away. Roberta put her heart and soul and brilliant eye into all of her work. Her conscience too. I remember she told me that she had been initially uncomfortable the assignment… Read more »
What does the world need more than a “Building Empathy Library”? Hey, Little Ant is honored to join such strong books in Lakeshore Learning’s collection.