I thank School & Library Journal for asking me to choose my “favorite children’s book about the black experience” for their article “Places in the Heart: Celebrating Black History Month“. This article is well worth a read to build your library with recommendations from authors: Sharon Draper, Russell Freedman, Nikki Grimes, Angela Johnson, Cynthia Kadohata,… Read more »
We just shipped off a package of Hey, Little Ant books and the very last CD in stock to Jennifer Lewkowski, an Occupational Therapist in South Africa. Jennifer works with individuals ages 3-50 who have issues managing gravity, touch, visual and auditory input, organization, sequence, and motor planning. Jennifer has read Hey, Little Ant to… Read more »
Dawn Armstrong of the Lake Tahoe Humane Society and SPCA put together an ‘animal story starter,’ a list of children’s books that “nurture compassion, responsibility and respect.” Hey, Little Ant is honored to be on the list with so many other important books. Where would any of us be, for example, without Dr. Seuss’ The… Read more »
We thank ReadBoston for naming Hey, Little Ant a ‘Top 10 Must Read’ on the In the Know: Boston’s Early Childhood Blog. ReadBoston is a non-profit children’s literacy program that is driven by a mission to have children in Boston reading on grade level by the time they complete third grade. We thank them for… Read more »
Watch author Phillip Hoose’s commencement address at the University of Southern Maine in May, 2010. Hoose’s speech highlights what he learned about life from his creation with his daughter Hannah of the song and book Hey, Little Ant.
We thank Morah Basha from Chabad Early Learning Center (CELM) in NYC for sharing Hey, Little Ant with her students. Ms. Basha notes on CELM’s blog that the book “was a great opportunity to learn about the Mitzvah of “Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim,” not to give pain to the living creatures Hashem created.” We say, “Shabbat… Read more »
Hannah and Phillip Hoose thank the Syracuse Cultural Workers for being long supporters of Hey, Little Ant and Phillip Hoose’s other books. They were the first catalog to put the book in their collection and it has been on their pages ever since.
Some may say we are making a mountain of of a mole hill, but we beg to differ. Anthill by E.O. Wilson is a mountain of a book be you human or ant. E.O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction author, Harvard entomology professor, and friend to Hey, Little Ant has created a stunner of a coming… Read more »
The Kids Yoga Resource, the blog for ChildLight Yoga in New Hampshire, uses Hey, Little Ant as a resource to teach the yoga practice of Ahimsa or Non-Violence. Childlight Yoga teaches Ahimsa by telling children to “surround yourself with love and kindness. Be gentle and peaceful in actions, thoughts. Be respectful. Show kindness. Do not… Read more »
No more devouring a book or eating up a story, please, some of us are Vegetarian Readers! Dr. Jenn in her latest blog entry talks about the health benefits for the whole family of going vegetarian. “It can be helpful to get educated about vegetarianism and nutrition,” says Dr. Jenn, “and also to share books… Read more »