This news just arrived from Patricia Gonzalez from the Global Flyway Network via fellow conservationist Charles Duncan from the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. B95 has been spotted in New Jersey!! “It is incredible! Were counted some 29,000 red knots in Delaware Bay and I was lucky that B95 decided to settle in front of… Read more »
MoonBird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 is seeing stars. Yes, hopefully our intrepid shorebird hero is on Delaware Bay feeding on horseshoe crab eggs laid by starlight, but those are not the stars we speak of. The book review journals have graced Moonbird (on sales 7/17/12) with 4 coveted “starred reviews.”… Read more »
Mike Hudson, founder of Friends of the Red Knot, and Phillip Hoose, author of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, talk about the Peace, Love and Horseshoe Crab Festival at the DuPont Nature Center near Milford, DE. Watch it here.
Author Phillip Hoose is on Delaware Bay hoping to spot B95, the star of his forthcoming book Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. Will B95 show himself this year?? Read the article from the Delaware State News (PDF) here.
The Sussex Countian interviews author Phillip Hoose about the rufa red knot’s migration stop on Delaware Bay: “I’ve chased that little guy all around the hemisphere and met people who have held him in their hands, but I have yet to see it myself,” said Phillip Hoose, a Newberry Honor and National Book Award-winning author,… Read more »
With the announcement today of the Katahdin Award by the Maine Library Association, Phillip Hoose becomes one of the most honored writers in Maine’s history. In its announcement of The Katahdin Award, designed to honor an author’s body of work of outstanding merit, the Maine Library Association acknowledged that Phillip Hoose’s books for children, young… Read more »
I suppose I need to tell you about the penguin. It was a tough choice, posting a personal identification photo that doesn’t show my face. I know: it’s rude at worst, unhelpful at best. I met the penguin in December 2009 at the Punta Tombo penguin rookery, in Patagonia. Almost a million Magellanic Penguins converge… Read more »
Our many thanks to the righteous folks at The Robert H. Jackson Center for keeping the honorable Supreme Justice’s civil rights legacy alive. The center honored Phillip Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice with state-wide book donations to schools in New York and an essay contest. Phil was happy to be on hand to congratulate… Read more »
Kelby Ouchley, an author who also has a radio program on Louisiana Public Radio, has just come out with a masterful collection of essays on the natural history of Louisiana, entitled Bayou-Diversity (LSU Press). Even if you’re not from Bayou country, it is worth your attention as a work of literature. Nothing escapes Ouchley’s attention:… Read more »
If all the world thought as deeply about sharing as Mrs. Nichol’s class did, the planet would be a more equitable place. Listen to the other advise they composed together after reading Hey, Little Ant: -At a play date, let the brother or sister play Legos too. -At the library, if two people want the… Read more »