Phillip Hoose

Dec 19, 2024 | centralmaine.com | Phillip Hoose

Tired of musical treacle at Christmas? Had enough of Alvin? Burled out? Brenda too cute? I offer relief: Here are my 10 favorite Christmas songs of all time, in no particular order. • “Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?” Written by Dory Previn in 1974 and perfected by the two-woman reggae group Casselberry-Dupree. • Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.” It has recently gained traction in malls, where singers blend among shoppers until a cue snaps into position and sends them into song.

Dec 19, 2024 | pressherald.com | Phillip Hoose

Tired of musical treacle at Christmas? Had enough of Alvin? Burled out? Brenda too cute? I offer relief: Here are my 10 favorite Christmas songs of all time, in no particular order. • “Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?” Written by Dory Previn in 1974 and perfected by the two-woman reggae group Casselberry-Dupree. • Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.” It has recently gained traction in malls, where singers blend among shoppers until a cue snaps into position and sends them into song.

Oct 30, 2024 | pressherald.com | Phillip Hoose

My first college girlfriend, with whom I fell into conversation one afternoon at the Indiana University campus bookstore, was kind, pretty, energetic and smart. AND she had a car – her dad’s white Thunderbird convertible. Soon that T-Bird could be found, night after night, in a field not far from campus. Contraception? You could get birth control pills at the campus clinic, but Terri wasn’t about to be interviewed by a nurse about her sexual activity.

Aug 29, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Phillip Hoose |Jenn Bailey |Renée Watson |Sarah Albee

Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose, illus. by Bea Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38973-4Previous collaborators and National Book Award winners Colvin and Hoose reteam to relate the actions of a young Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) in reaction to segregation in Montgomery, Ala.