Speaking Appearances

Maine Celebrates Mockingbirds: Join Phillip Hoose’s Launch of DUET

Phillip Hoose’s much-anticipated Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird launches on 9/13/22. Anyone in the country is welcome to order a signed, personalized copy to ship from PRINT: A Bookstore on 9/30/22. Pre-order a signed copy here. To catch Phillip Hoose in person, join us on… Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:00 –… Read more »

Phil Hoose Supports Welcoming Nonprofit

From the Portland Press Herald: The generosity of a Maine author will allow more schools and libraries in Maine and across the country to participate in a reading program that welcomes immigrants to their new communities. Phillip Hoose, whose 13 books include the National Book Award-winning “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” has donated $15,000 to… Read more »

Attucks Engages 200 Ninth Graders in History

An Excerpt for the Portland Press Herald article by Glenn Jordan, 12/5/18: An intriguing collaboration between the Portland Public Library and Portland High School brought together a local author with roughly 200 ninth-graders Wednesday morning to talk about basketball, race relations and perseverance… . Phil Hoose, who once provided commentary on public access television broadcasts… Read more »

Hoose Honored by Children’s Book Guild of DC

Phillip Hoose was presented with the 2018 Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Book Award for his full body of work in a ceremony in Washington, DC. The Children’s Book Guild of DC is a professional organization of authors, illustrators and children’s literature specialists promoting high standards in children’s literature since 1945.     Here is the… Read more »

Phil Hoose Appearances 2015

Author Phillip Hoose has been invited to talk about The Boys Who Challenged Hitler all over this country this year.  If you would like to hear abut the Danish boy saboteurs from the author himself, we hope to see you on… August 21, 20015 @ 7:30 PM Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts 2904 College… Read more »

My major weapon is a good narrative

Thank you to David Snodgress of the Herald-Times for writing about Moonbird and Phillip Hoose’s to Summit Elementary in Indiana. “Students got to know B95, a small bird that has flown the distance it takes to get to the moon and halfway back, when author and Indiana University graduate Phillip Hoose came by Summit Elementary. To tell third-, fourth-… Read more »

An Open Book

Recently I visited the Washington Middle School for Girls, in Washington DC. The appearance was arranged through An Open Book Children’s Literacy Foundation, a non-profit organization formed “to improve literacy among disadvantaged children and teens in the greater Washington, D.C. area by giving schools and students books and access to authors and illustrators.”  I was… Read more »