The Washington Post shared, “The Best Books for Raising Activist Kids.” Proud to have It’s Our World, Too! Young People Who Are Making a Difference: How They Do It — How You Can, Too! by Phillip Hoose (FSG) among such amazing children’s literature titles. “As protests and marches continue to sweep the country, parents can… Read more »
The following article appeared in the Portland Press Herald… History lesson vindicates students protesting national anthem As Justice Fortas wrote in 1969, children don’t shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door. By Phillip M. Hoose I write in response to the Sept. 15 Associated Press article “High schoolers joining chorus of anthem protesters”… Read more »
Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Horn Book just released their summer reading list. The list includes Phillip Hoose’s The Boys Who Challenged Hitler. “Hoose brilliantly shows how the astonishing bravery of ordinary Danish teens started something extraordinary.” —Horn Book
On March 2, 1955, a young African American woman boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., took her seat and, minutes later, refused the driver’s command to surrender it to a white passenger. “It felt like Harriet Tubman was pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth was pushing me down on the other shoulder,”… Read more »
Knud Pedersen, the subject of The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and The Churchill Club recorded this video in 2014. In the video, he talks about working with author Phillip Hoose and the publishing team at Farrar Straus Giroux on the development of his story. He says that “gratefulness has no distances.” Indeed, Knud, it does not…. Read more »
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and The Churchill Club was reviewed in the 9/13/15 edition of The New York Times Book Review by fellow National Book Award-winning author M.T. Anderson. “Heroism is not in fashion right now. We prefer our heroes smudged and compromised; it’s more comforting, less demanding…The heroism in Phillip Hoose’s “The Boys… Read more »
National Endowment for the Humanities compiled a list of “Nonfiction Favorites” or the Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers. We are proud to find both Claudette Colvin and We Were There, Too! on their fine list.
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler (FSG) was declared to be “engaging and authoritative” and not “fusty” history in an article in School Library Journal along with the terrific reads, Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army (FSG) and Doreen Rappaport’s Beyond Courage (Candlewick). Read the article.
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