Now you can migrate while Moonbird migrates. Moonbird has been release on audio from Brilliance Audio. Here is what AudioFile Magazine had to say about the production: “B95 has many champions, including Hoose himself, whose impassioned narration often reveals a genuine sense of awe at B95’s endurance despite significant ongoing changes to its ecosystem.” —AudioFile… Read more »
Professor Ernie Bond of Salisbury University declared this combo of authors Olivia Bouler and Phillip Hoose, the “best band to ever play for the birds!” at the Green Earth Book Awards. Readers and bird lovers should locate a copy of the wonderful conservation title by Olivia Bouler, Olivia’s Birds: Saving the Gulf and follow her on… Read more »
Marvelous blogger Barb Middleton of Reading Rumpus Book Reviews‘s husband read Moonbird by proxy. “This expository text is so engaging that I kept spitting out facts to my husband as I was being wowed by this tiny creature that performs feats that don’t seem possible. Did you know that this bird eats 14 times it’s… 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 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 »
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.