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Review of Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird
Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird by Phillip Hoose Middle School, High School Farrar 160 pp. g9/22 978-0-374-38877-5 $24.99e-book ed. 978-0-374-38878-2 $12.99 Hoose chronicles the unique relationship between humans and the northern mockingbird in this medley of natural history, political history, mythology,...
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Author Phillip Hoose’s 2015 BGHB NF Honor Speech
In recent years I’ve endeavored to give young readers real-life protagonists their own age. I want my readers to ask themselves, “What would I have done?” I believe that teens experience sharper pangs of injustice than adults, and a greater determination to do something about it. Some, such as Claudette...
Three nonfiction books
Bomb: the Race to Build — and Steal — the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve SheinkinClaudette Colvin by Phillip HooseMarching For Freedom by Elizabeth PartridgeAcclaimed author Jean Fritz, innovator in children’s nonfiction (and biography in particular), has said: “Children don’t need a perfect picture. They need to...
Review of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with
the Great Survivor B95by Phillip HooseIntermediate, Middle School, High SchoolFarrar
148 pp. 7/12 978-0-374-30468-3 $21.99He’s called “Moonbird” because, over a lifespan of twenty years, he’s flown some 325,000 miles, the distance to the moon and almost halfway back. This robin-sized red knot (subspecies...
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird: Phillip Hoose’s 2005 BGHB Nonfiction Award Speech
I'd like to tell you how and why I came to choose the Ivory-billed Woodpecker as the subject for a work of nonfiction. I did it to unite my two careers with one project: I am both an author and a conservationist (next week I will begin my twenty-ninth year...
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