Phil & Claudette Take the Prize
Our dear friend, Phillip Hoose walked away with a National Book Award tonight for his stunning portrait of a brave woman, Claudette Colvin.Claudette stood regal by Phil's side as he accepted the award and thanked her repeatedly for taking a chance on him, for letting him tell her s

New York City Here We Come
With a round of "New York City Here We Come" set to the tune of Buck Owen's Kansas City Song, Phillip Hoose and his band Chipped Enamel closed the send-off party for the National Book Awards.The lyric of "they've got a whole lot of awards and I'm gonna get me some" brou

Miami Thrice
Three days of 80 degree weather and 100's of thousands of readers for Anne Sibley O'Brien and Ed Briant at the Miami Book Fair.We booked both for

Claudette Colvin Live
It is one thing to read Phillip Hoose's biography, Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice (FSG). It is another to meet the woman herself. I have had the honor over the last nine months of watching Phil share the stage with unsung Civil Rights heroine, Claudette Colvin. In Claudette today you can see the 15-year-old girl that said "no" to Jim Crow by refusing to give up her bus seat on a Montgomery, AL bus 9 months before Rosa Parks.We gathered all of the photos and audio recordings of their appearances and wo

Book Signing with Whipped Cream (and Nuts)
Standing in the darkened gallery space taking down Ed Briant's exhibit of illustrations from Don't Look Now, I had to stop and look.Had my plot worked? Had I managed to but a bit of wh