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 »
We congratulate the Green Earth Book Awards on 10 Years of honoring environmental children’s literature and their donation this year of 10,000 environmental books with a message of stewardship to area schools! Phil Hoose was pleased to join the celebrations on two previous years when they honored his books, Hey, Litte Ant and Moonbird. “Being able to… Read more »
Author talks to elementary students about shorebirds, preserving nature By Dani Palmer The Herald Bulletin FRANKTON, Ind. — Frankton fifth-grader Hannah Smith had no idea what a red knot was until author Phil Hoose stopped by. Hoose was at Frankton Elementary School on Thursday morning to talk to the students about shorebirds, along with a… Read more »
Phillip Hoose was pleased to be invited to write an essay for The Nature Conservancy’s new youth programs. Phil is a conservation planner for The Nature Conservancy where he has been a staff member since 1977. “…the youthful experience of nature itself may be headed for extinction. Children living even in remote villages experience life… Read more »