They won, they won! Hip hip hooray!Congratulations to Phillip Hoose and Claudette Colvin on winning the National Book Award!
You can read about all the NBA winners at the New York Times.
Publishers Weekly says:
Phillip Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (FSG/Kroupa), the story of the almost forgotten black teenage girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing, won the award for Young People's Literature. Hoose called winning the award “unreal” and said that Colvin “took a chance on me. She had never heard of me and was about to be forgotten by history and we saved her story.”And here's a great little interview with Phil Hoose on the National Book Award website.
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