Phillip Hoose
Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His children’s books have been received widely by the children's book community.
Life
Hey, Little Ant (Tricycle Press, 1998), inspired by his daughter Ruby and co-authored by his daughter Hannah, received a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. It’s Our World, Too!: Stories of Young People Who Are Making a Difference'' (Little, Brown, 1998) won a Christopher Award for “artistic excellence in books affirming the highest values of the human spirit." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004), received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and was named a Top Ten American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults among many additional honors.
We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History (Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001) was a finalist for the National Book Award. In addition, it was dubbed a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and an International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice.
His most recent title, Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice is a National Book Award winner and received the Newbery Honor amongst other honors.
A songwriter and performing musician, Phillip Hoose is a founding member of the Children's Music Network and a member of the band Chipped Enamel.
Phillip Hoose was born in South Bend, Indianaon May 31, 1947 and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He has been on the staff of the Nature Conservancy since 1977. Hoose has two children, Hannah and Ruby, who are grown. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, the artist Sandi Ste. George. [1]
Awards
For Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice:
- 2009 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature [2]
- 2010 Newbery Honor [3]
- Robert F. Sibert Award - Honor
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist 2009
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book 2009
- Booklist Top 10 Biographies for Youth 2009
- Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year 2009
- CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)
- Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
- Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List
For Race to Save the Lord God Bird:
- Boston Globe - Horn Book Award
- Orbis Pictus Honor Book
- Bank Street / Flora Steiglitz Award
- Parents' Choice Award Winner
- American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
- American Library Association Notable Children's Books
- National Science Teacher's Association-CBC, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
- Miami Herald Best Books of the Year
- Washington Post Best Books of the Year
- Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
- Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
- Great Lakes Book Award
- Maine Lupine Award
- New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award
- Tennessee Intermediate Volunteer State Book Award Master List
For We Were There Too!:
- National Book Awards - Finalist
- American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
- IRA Teachers' Choices
- Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
- Parents' Choice Award Winner
- NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
- Booklinks Lasting Connection
- Booklist Editors' Choice
- Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
- Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
Works
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice, Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 9780374313227
- Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me, Walker & Company, 2006, ISBN 9780802715371
- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, ISBN 9780374361730
- We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001, ISBN 9780374382520
- It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002, ISBN 9780374336226
- Hey, Little Ant, Tricycle Press, 1998, ISBN 9781883672546
- Hoosiers: the Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana, Vintage Books, 1986, ISBN 9780394747781; Emmis Books, 1995, ISBN 9781878208439
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