Maine Audubon Speaker Series: Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Thursday Dec 6, 2012 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Gilsland Farm Audubon Center Free More info Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning Maine author Phillip Hoose tells the extraordinary story of a single bird’s strength, adaptability, and determination in the… Read more »
“…holding B95 in my hands several times is among the biggest thrills of my life.” –-Biologist Patricia Gonzalez It is only fitting that Biologist Patricia Gonzalez, head of the wetlands program, Fundacion Inalafquen, would be the one to spot B95 last May 28. She is perhaps the person who knows him best. She was part of the banding… Read more »
“…I wanted to write about extinction, it’s folly to knowingly let a life form go. Every life form is a success story. Every life form holds and carries all these wise decisions within it. The point is not to let them go, but to learn from them and admire them and to keep them going… Read more »
The Portland Public Library Presents… MOONBIRD A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Thursday, 9/27/12 6:00 PM Portland Public Library, Main Branch Monument Square Portland, Maine (207) 871-1700 x723 Free Admission Join National Book Award–winning author Phillip Hoose for a lecture on his new book, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the… Read more »
Author Phillip Hoose has been hitting the airwaves as B95 catches some air of his own (somewhere in the Arctic). LISTEN to Phillip Hoose Read and Discuss Moonbird at TeachingBooks.net LISTEN to Phillip Hoose Interviewed about Moonbird on Public Radio
A wonderful crowd of readers, birders, and conservationists including Portland, Maine major Michael Brennan, staff of the Nature Conservancy, and Charles Duncan of Manomet launched Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 at Longfellow Books. Author Phillip Hoose gave a compelling review of the life of B95, the forces that work against B95, and… 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 »