Phillip Hoose Books In Order

Publication Order of Children's Books

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Phillip Hoose is an accomplished author known for writing articles, songs, stories, essays, books and more. This includes the book Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice, a National Book Award winning book.

He also happens to be the author of several other books, including The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, which won multiple awards, We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History, a National Book Award Finalist, and a Christopher Award-winning manual for youth activism It’s Our World Too!.

We Were There Too! was a finalist for a National Book Award. It was also selected as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and was selected as an International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice.

Phillip has also written a picture book called Hey, Little Ant. It started as a song with the same title and was inspired by his daughter Ruby. He involved his daughter Hannah, who became his co-author. The book is loved all over the world with over a million copies that were in print written in ten different languages. It has even been called a ‘masterpiece for teaching values and character education’ by Teaching Tolerance Magazine. The book also was the recipient of a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.

The author also loves the game of baseball. This can be seen in his books Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me. It was picked as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of 2007 by Booklist. He also written Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana.

Hoose attended Indiana University and after that attended the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences and graduated. He has also been a staff member of The Nature Conservancy since 1977, which is dedicated to discovering and protecting habitats of endangered species.

He is a songwriter and a performing musician. He also is a founding member of the Children’s Music Network and belongs to the band Chipped Enamel. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He resides in Portland, Maine.

The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is a 2004 book by Phillip Hoose. It received the Boston Globe Horn Book Award and was also picked as a Top Ten American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. If you love birds or interesting books that go into detail on one subject, definitely give this book a try!

The tragedy of extinction is told here through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It also tells the story of the various people throughout the years who have done everything from attempting to possess it, trying to paint it, doing their best to sell it, and in a last effort, try and save it.

This is an interesting and unique saga that goes through two hundred years of history. It is able to introduce artists such as John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and even a new breed of scientist in Arthur A. Allen and his young ornithology student James Tanner, who has a personal quest to save the Ivory-bill ends up leading to one of the first conservation showdowns in the history of the United States, an early round in what eventually blossomed to a global effort to save species.

As the hope to save the Ivory-bill begins fading in the United States, there is a chance spotting of the bird in Cuba in 1987, where Cuban scientists quickly and enthusiastically joined in the important race to save this bird.

All of this comes together to give the reader an incredible account of the many things that combined together to ultimately bring about the unfortunate demise of the ivory-billed woodpecker. The winner of the 2005 Boston Globe – Horn Book Award for nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street-Flora Stieglitz Award, check this book out to get all the details and learn a lot along the way!

Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice is a 2009 book from Phillip Hoose. If you have been looking for an interesting book that focuses on a real-life person in history, check this book out!

An impassioned teenager made history on March 2, 1955. It was then that she was fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation that she refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

But while Rosa Parks did the same thing nine months later and was celebrated, this time the 15 year old Claudette discovered that she was being shunned by classmates and even dismissed by community leaders. She was undaunted and a year later she tried to challenge segregation once more as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, a landmark case that was able to strike down the segregation laws of Montgomery and was able to sweep away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.

A book that has been based on interviews with Claudette Colvin and others, Hoose presents an in-depth account of an important civil rights figure that may not be as well known as others and brings the details to life. This is the story of Claudette Colvin as well as the historic Montgomery bus boycott and a court case that would end up changing the very course of American history as we know it. Read this book to find out more and absorb every detail along the way!