Pleased that Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice and We Were There Too: Young People in U.S. History are included in the University of Delaware’s Freedom Project: Teaching American History program this year. Phil Hoose will be speaking to educators there on July 26, 2011. The goals of the TAH Freedom Project are (1) increased teacher… Read more »
I hoped that Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice would change the way we talk about the Montgomery bus protest. I think it has. It isn’t just that then 15-year-old Claudette Colvin took great risks and suffered great consequences before Rosa Parks famously did exactly what she did nearly a year later. It is, that as… Read more »
As this African American History Month comes to a close and the book celebrates its second anniversary with a paperback release, it is gratifying to see Claudette’s name so often mentioned alongside that of Rosa Parks. Even the White House dog, Bo mentioned Claudette’s contribution in his blog: “While it was clearly Rosa Parks’ destiny to… Read more »
As spring training season arrives, I was pleased to speak with MPBN‘s Irwin Gratz about the two youngest pro baseball players ever. Two 15-year-old baseball players –Joe Nuxhall and Anna Meyer–who got their professional start during World War II are among the young people featured in my book, We Were There Too: Young People in… Read more »
I thank School & Library Journal for asking me to choose my “favorite children’s book about the black experience” for their article “Places in the Heart: Celebrating Black History Month“. This article is well worth a read to build your library with recommendations from authors: Sharon Draper, Russell Freedman, Nikki Grimes, Angela Johnson, Cynthia Kadohata,… Read more »
Dawn Armstrong of the Lake Tahoe Humane Society and SPCA put together an ‘animal story starter,’ a list of children’s books that “nurture compassion, responsibility and respect.” Hey, Little Ant is honored to be on the list with so many other important books. Where would any of us be, for example, without Dr. Seuss’ The… Read more »
We thank ReadBoston for naming Hey, Little Ant a ‘Top 10 Must Read’ on the In the Know: Boston’s Early Childhood Blog. ReadBoston is a non-profit children’s literacy program that is driven by a mission to have children in Boston reading on grade level by the time they complete third grade. We thank them for… Read more »
Watch author Phillip Hoose’s commencement address at the University of Southern Maine in May, 2010. Hoose’s speech highlights what he learned about life from his creation with his daughter Hannah of the song and book Hey, Little Ant.
Some may say we are making a mountain of of a mole hill, but we beg to differ. Anthill by E.O. Wilson is a mountain of a book be you human or ant. E.O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction author, Harvard entomology professor, and friend to Hey, Little Ant has created a stunner of a coming… Read more »
From The Hey, Little Ant Essay Challenge Archives comes this dancing ant drawing from a First Grader in Denver, IN with this caption: “I think the boy should not squish the Ant. The boy shuld let the Ant go free.”