David Maybury | Blog

I’m nearly a week late coming to this one – but keeping with the awards theme today – it is certainly worth a mention.

Phillip Hoose was awarded the US National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for his book Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (a true-life account of the 15-year-old African-American who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.)

Both Hoose and Colvin were at the ceremony and there were plenty of pictures, plaudits and smiles.