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” brought down the house of fellow writers, musicians, activists, librarians, friends, and other readers. Phil was especially honored to have the Talbot family present at the event. Phil’s book is dedicated to Jerry Talbot, Maine legislator, innovator, historian, and friend to so...
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Three days of 80 degree weather and 100’s of thousands of readers for Anne Sibley O’Brien at the Miami Book Fair. We booked Anne for Alex Simmon’s Kids Comic Con held within the larger festival. Anne’s work from The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea was accepted in the Color of Comics Exhibit at Miami Dade where she appeared with other artists that have included characters of color in starring roles in their comics. (Photos from Miami Book Fair Flickr) Share...
Read MoreClaudette 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 wove them together the best we could for a YouTube piece. I hope it...
Read MoreAncient Punk Farm Documents Revealed
Ancient Punk Farm Documents Revealed (Source: New York Times 09/15/2579) Portland, Maine—Archaeologists working at the offices of Curious City, a yet undocumented children’s sentient book marketing firm on the submerged ancient city peninsula of Portland, Maine, revealed a layer of 2005 film rolls (a specimen of “film” long lost to antiquity) that contained the lost Punk Farm footage of “Lunch Box.” “Lunch Box” was a person-to-author-live-event utilized before virtual reality allowed author to speak directly into the brains of children thus...
Read MoreKorean Heroes
Curious City was honored to be interviewed by Sun-woo Kim from MBC Global Media (Korea) for a documentary on the legendary Korean figure, Hong Kil Dong. As the camera rolled and volumes of tea were consumed, I talked about the trends in graphic novels for children, why American superheroes are loners, and all the places that Anne Sibley O’Brien’s The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea has taken me and its readers. I recalled being on stage with Anne at the Smithsonian, sipping green tea with the Korean Cultural Ambassador at the Korean embassy, and all the...
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