Phillip Hoose was recently interviewed by Abby of “The Lupine Librarian” about Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, and the difficulties that can arise when writing non-fiction. “The Lupine Librarian” is a blog that focuses on book reviews, write ups about library programs and thoughts on library life and the… Read more »
The Delaware Bay Blues was written May 22, 2011 in a rented beach house in Reeds Beach, New Jersey. 25 or so biologists and volunteers, myself among them, had spent the entire afternoon trapping, measuring, banding and releasing hundreds of shorebirds. We were happily exhausted that evening. Wine appeared, and so did a guitar. We… Read more »
You’re Invited to… The Book Launch for MOONBIRD A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:00 PM Longfellow Books Monument Square Portland, Maine With a follow-up reception at: 8:30 PM The Pepper Club 78 Middle Street Portland, ME SHARE the event on Facebook. The Book Launch Join National… Read more »
B95, the subject of Phillip Hoose’s Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, not only appeared on a NJ beach this week, but also on the New York Times‘ Green: A Blog About Energy and the Environment in the article “A Red-Knot Celebrity is Back in Town.”: “On Monday morning, Patricia… Read more »
Mike Hudson, founder of Friends of the Red Knot, and Phillip Hoose, author of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, talk about the Peace, Love and Horseshoe Crab Festival at the DuPont Nature Center near Milford, DE. Watch it here.
Author Phillip Hoose is on Delaware Bay hoping to spot B95, the star of his forthcoming book Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. Will B95 show himself this year?? Read the article from the Delaware State News (PDF) here.
The Sussex Countian interviews author Phillip Hoose about the rufa red knot’s migration stop on Delaware Bay: “I’ve chased that little guy all around the hemisphere and met people who have held him in their hands, but I have yet to see it myself,” said Phillip Hoose, a Newberry Honor and National Book Award-winning author,… Read more »
With the announcement today of the Katahdin Award by the Maine Library Association, Phillip Hoose becomes one of the most honored writers in Maine’s history. In its announcement of The Katahdin Award, designed to honor an author’s body of work of outstanding merit, the Maine Library Association acknowledged that Phillip Hoose’s books for children, young… Read more »
I suppose I need to tell you about the penguin. It was a tough choice, posting a personal identification photo that doesn’t show my face. I know: it’s rude at worst, unhelpful at best. I met the penguin in December 2009 at the Punta Tombo penguin rookery, in Patagonia. Almost a million Magellanic Penguins converge… Read more »
Our many thanks to the righteous folks at The Robert H. Jackson Center for keeping the honorable Supreme Justice’s civil rights legacy alive. The center honored Phillip Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice with state-wide book donations to schools in New York and an essay contest. Phil was happy to be on hand to congratulate… Read more »