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, Indiana

South Bend, Indiana

The city of South Bend is the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total of 101,168 residents; its Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 316,663...

, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

 and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is one of the graduate professional schools of Yale University. Founded to train foresters, it now trains leaders and creates new knowledge that will sustain and restore the health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people...

. He lives in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

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Awards

For Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice:

• 2009 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature
• 2010 Newbery Honor
• 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

Anthologies

• "Indiana's Cinderella Basketball Team", Indiana history: a book of readings, Editor Ralph D. Gray, Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 9780253326294

External links

• Author's website
• Hey, Little Ant book website