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	hoot - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		I don't give a hoot about clinging to a career.
		The dates of Honda Hoot 2008 are June 18-21, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
		Hoot (Paperback) by Carl Hiaasen (Author) "Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren't...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=hoot (230 words)

	English Education - Young Adult Literature Program
		Carl Hiaasen has been writing about Florida since his father gave him a typewriter at age six.
		Now Hiaasen writes columns for the Miami Herald and is the author of many best-selling novels for adults, including Sick Puppy and Basket Case.
		Hoot, Hiaasen's first novel for young readers, is full of his trademark satirical wit, revealing the good, the bad, and the screwy state of Florida.
	www.asu.edu /clas/english/englished/yalit/hoot (284 words)

	The Whole Ed Catalog - Canada - Hoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hoot, Carl Hiaasen's first book for younger readers is part mystery, part slapstick comedy and is a totally satisfying and truly environmentally friendly novel.
		But Hoot is not just pure farce—and that is what makes it such an interesting novel—it also explores the way that any number of corrupt and greedy adults view the world as theirs to plunder no matter the consequences.
		Hiaasen is a straight shooter with his adult readers and he treats his younger readers with the same consideration.
	astore.amazon.ca /thwhedca-20/detail/0375829164 (1927 words)

	News 2006 ~ Hoot ~ Booklist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the most popular family movies in theatres right now is Hoot, the story of a young man who moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
		Hiaasen: Yes, there are some funny scenes that remain from the book, and some new scenes that were put in the movie.
		Hiaasen: Well, they haven't been jaded yet, and they still can look around and see the natural world as a place to be shared and not exploited.
	www.walden.com /web/teach/news/2006/booklist (486 words)

	Hoot review (2006) Jimmy Buffett - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		Hoot is a throwback movie to the type of kids entertainment that I used to watch in my formative years, with a brand of humor and blithe sense of importance that one could find regularly on television known as the "After School Special".
		Hoot isn't really trying to recapture a sense of nostalgia for these sorts of vacuous, sometimes-preachy little films, but it does appear to be made by people that haven't really matured past that era in terms of what they think of when they conceive of movies aimed at young adults.
		Hoot is co-produced by easy listening rock/country star Jimmy Buffett, who also provides some new original songs to the soundtrack, in addition to casting himself in the role of the kindly biology teacher.
	www.qwipster.net /hoot.htm (462 words)

	USATODAY.com - These guys give a 'Hoot' if kids like the movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hoot, by best-selling novelist and Miami Herald columnist Hiaasen, is the story of three Florida teens who are determined to stop developers from putting a pancake house on a piece of land occupied by endangered burrowing owls.
		With Hoot, he says, "all they promised me was that they would be as true to the spirit of the book as they possibly could.
		With a producing credit on the film, Hiaasen, who is working on a new novel, was kept in the loop via e-mail with every script change, he says.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-05-03-hoot_x.htm (799 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Walden Media returns with another movie based on a popular kids novel: Carl Hiaasen's "Hoot." While the movie doesn't quite manage to have the same appeal that "Holes" had or the visual power of "The Chronicles of Narnia," it's still a fairly entertaining movie with a good message.
		The main character of "Hoot" is Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman), a kid from Montana who has just moved to Coconut Cove, Fla., (note to readers: Coconut Cove is not a real place.) He's been moving all his life and is getting tired of it fast.
		Hiaasen, the book's writer, is a brilliant satirist who can lampoon something intelligently while still having a message.
	www.coloradoan.com /news/coloradoanpublishing/blog/050606_hoot_clarke.html (431 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Carl Hiaasen
		Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida.
		In this interview Carl Hiaasen, author of SKINNY DIP, discusses his career as a journalist and how his experience at a large newspaper helped him become a better writer.
		I wrote HOOT for my stepson, nieces and nephew, who were all in that ten-to-fourteen year old bracket.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-hiaasen-carl.asp (2446 words)

	Carl Hiaasen's Official Web Site - F.A.Q.'s
		It didn't take me as long to write HOOT as it does to write the other novels, partly because it was slightly shorter and partly because the plot wasn't quite as multi-layered.
		None of the characters in HOOT are based on real people, but the setting is very much borrowed from own childhood.
		HOOT was no different from the adult fiction in that respect.
	www.carlhiaasen.com /faqs-hoot.html (1295 words)

	Hiaasen's latest hoot keeps island time \| AccessAtlanta
		Through 10 novels Hiaasen has pounded the gavel, his satire a verdict on the kinds of baddies we love to hate, in whose dismemberment we delight — those sleazy, avaricious salespeople and developers who prey upon fixed-income folks or the aw-shucks working poor.
		Hiaasen's hell usually involves a worldly comeuppance, as is the fate here of Louis Piejack, would-be rapist and local moron, who manages to have his chopped-off fingers reattached out of order, and wrapped in a gargantuan bandage that ultimately becomes infested with fire ants.
		But Hiaasen is always good for a number of laugh-aloud scenes and lines, and when he lets his men and women banter, his ear is pitch-perfect.
	www.accessatlanta.com /arts/content/arts/stories/2006/11/13/1114LVbook.html (708 words)

	Hoot (2006): Reviews
		Hoot is flatly directed by talk-show-host-turned-sitcom-director Wil Shriner, but the young actors are spirited and appealing, and the movie's low-key anti-establishment posture is vastly preferable to the knee-jerk fulminations of a Michael Moore.
		Hoot may be warm and fuzzy with its adorable owls, triumphant kids and inviting Florida groves.
		The kids Hoot is aimed at weren't around to see all the previous films it echoes, particularly the toothless Disney live-action films of the '70s.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/hoot (1178 words)

	Time for Kids \| News \| This Writer's a Hoot
		Hiaasen, who wrote the best-seller, Hoot, lives in Florida and takes his writing cues from the people and places around him.
		Hiaasen, not only writes kid's books, he also writes a non-fiction column for a newspaper and hilarious novels for grown-ups.
		Hiaasen talked to TFK about his most recent book, Flush, the Florida wilderness and turning Hoot into a movie.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/news/story/0,6260,1138836,00.html (1258 words)

	Reviews: Hoot - Christianity Today Movies
		At the beginning of Hoot, the film version of Carl Hiaasen's Newbery Honor-winning book, Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is riding the bus for his first day at a new school.
		Hiaasen has said children are smarter than adults and that he, like Mullet, used to mess with construction sites.
		"Hoot is indeed inherently educational, but along with teaching the positives of teamwork and environmental responsibility, it also confirms for kids that lying and cheating are acceptable—even desirable—when it comes to doing great things with your life.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/2006/hoot.html (1930 words)

	Kidsreads.com - HOOT by Carl Hiaasen
		Hiaasen's wonderfully twisted, weird fiction for adults, I was intrigued by the idea of him writing for a younger audience.
		I'm happy to report that HOOT is funny, well written, and enjoyable, even for a depraved old lady like me. The plot concerns Roy Eberhardt, an intelligent, resourceful middle-school student who has just moved to Florida from Montana.
		Hiaasen's usual indignation over the rape of his native Florida.
	www.kidsreads.com /reviews/0375829164.asp (469 words)

	Powell's Books - Flush by Carl Hiaasen
		"Hiaasen's (Hoot) action-packed mystery set in the Florida Keys offers a colorful cast of dastardly villains and eccentric heroes, along with his signature environmental themes.
		Carl Hiaasen is a columnist for the Miami Herald and is the author of many bestselling novels, including Basket Case and Skinny Dip.
		Hiassen’s first novel for young readers, Hoot, was also a bestseller, and received a Newbery Honor Award.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0375821821 (887 words)

	Hoot
		Fans of Carl Hiaasen’s best-selling 2003 Newbery Honor-winning kidlit novel will be happy to know that the book has been reincarnated as a funny, thoughtful, and caring film by Walden Media and New Line Cinema to be released on May 5th.
		Hoot is a film with a message accompanied by a sparkling sound track with original songs by Jimmy Buffett who appears in the movie as Roy’s marine biology teacher.
		This time the main characters have to deal with their father who takes the environment so much to heart that he keeps ending up in jail for his activities, and find a non-violent way to save the turtles at the same time.
	journals.aol.com /rosepacatte/MyMovies/entries/2006/04/30/hoot/655 (667 words)

	Flashlight Readers: Hoot: Meet the Author
		Carl Hiaasen has been writing about Florida since his father gave him a typewriter at age 6.
		Hiaasen's novels have been published in 29 languages, which is 28 more than he can read or write!
		Hoot, Hiaasen's first novel for young readers, was the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Newbery Honor.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/flashlightreaders/hoot/popups/bio.htm (201 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Pancake House That Almost Ate Florida
		Carl Hiaasen might be writing here for kids -- a first for him -- but adult fans of his particular brand of fl comedy could have told them to expect nothing less.
		The entire cast assembles, not omitting half of Roy's history class, a "bunch of parents," media, police, the mayor, a leading councilman, the chamber of commerce president and Mother Paula herself in the shape of former beauty queen and B-movie actress Kimberly Lou Dixon.
		But it wouldn't be authentic Hiaasen if it didn't also carry an underlying note, or chord, really, of genuine regret and fury.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A12488-2002Sep13?language=printer (681 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Flush: Books: Carl Hiaasen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		'Hoot', his first attempt at juvenile literature, was received well and I thought a reasonable book.
		It is basically a Hiaasen book-lite with all the bite taken out so the kids won't be upset.
		Carl Hiaasen has written a number of adult books and this is his second children’s novel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Flush-Carl-Hiaasen/dp/0552553557 (974 words)

	Hoot - Rotten Tomatoes
		Hoot is a modest hoot, but enjoyable all the same.
		Hoot has a big heart and a generous disposition, but not much wisdom for a movie about owls.
		Hoot in retrospect won’t really offer your children anything they haven’t already seen, and it’s just another preachy environmental film that talks down to them.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/hoot (925 words)

	Buy.com - Hoot : Carl Hiaasen : ISBN 9780375921810
		Buy.com - Hoot : Carl Hiaasen : ISBN 9780375921810
		Carl Hiaasen graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism in 1974 and began writing for the Miami Herald in 1976.
		Excerpted from Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Excerpted by permission.
	www.buy.com /prod/hoot/q/loc/106/30989333.html (1618 words)

	Amazon.fr : Hoot: Livres en anglais: Carl Hiaasen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hiaasen's tongue is firmly in cheek as he successfully cuts his slapstick sense of humor down to kid-size.
		Sure to be a hoot, er, hit with middle school mystery fans.
		Characteristically quirky characters and comic twists will surely gain the author new fans, though their attention may wander during his narrative's intermittently protracted focus on several adults, among them a policeman and the manager of a construction site for a new franchise of a pancake restaurant chain.
	www.amazon.fr /Hoot-Carl-Hiaasen/dp/0375829164 (713 words)

	JS Online: 'Hoot' doesn't quite get off ground
		"Hoot" is a kids' movie written by a journalist who knows his way around the seamier side of life.
		Based on the Newbery Award-winning novel by columnist and bestselling mystery writer Carl Hiaasen, "Hoot" isn't a lurid crime tale, but it does reflect his environmentally conscious nature.
		Although the birds in "Hoot" were not computer-generated, their images were digitally inserted into scenes with the actors after the crew got special permission to film the endangered species.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=420824 (493 words)

	Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot Kliatt - Find Articles
		$6.95 J* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2002: Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald and the author of many best-selling novels for adults about the wild and wacky side of the state of Florida, offers a hoot of a read here in his first novel for YAs.
		Roy is the new kid in town, a student at Trace Middle School in Coconut Cove.
		My 14-year-old daughter read this and liked it, calling it "clever and funny" and commenting "it was interesting how the plots came together." Hiaasen's trademark over-the-top humor and satire, along with his concern for safeguarding Florida's wildlife, come through clearly and will entertain readers.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBX/is_4_38/ai_n6122969 (282 words)

	Club's Message Included on Hoot DVD
		Both Hiaasen and Shriner graciously donated their time to participate in the PSA for us back in April.
		Filmed on location in south Florida, Hoot follows the adventures of three middle-school friends with big hearts who set out to save defenseless burrowing owls from land developers in their community.
		Hoot author Carl Hiaasen (left) and Wil Shriner, director of the movie, at the Hoot public service announcement shoot for Save the Manatee Club in Fort Lauderdale.
	www.savethemanatee.org /news_feature_hoot_3.htm (309 words)

	HOOT
		But Hoot is more like a Winn-Dixie than a Narnia; this is a small story told with a minimum of fuss and a sharp eye towards keeping it clean.
		The strongest swear word heard in the film is "dang" and the most risqué moment comes when the young hero's love interest spends the night on his bedroom floor without his parents' permission.
		It's hard to hate a movie that essentially just wants to teach kids to respect the environment (a message certain adults could stand to hear again), especially when that lesson is imparted in such an upbeat manner.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002463021 (601 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Carl Hiaasen - Hoot at Epinions.com
		Hoot is a great book for all ages, and offers great characters, story line, and lessons learned.
		Being the age they are (9th grade, I believe), have any background thoughts on this matter, and it is simply instinctual feelings that propel them to protect the owls.
		Hoot is being made into a movie, to be released in theaters in Spring 2006!
	www.epinions.com /content_191374986884 (1277 words)

	Hoot - UMC.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Hoot, three middle-schoolers—a runaway, a tomboy and the “new kid”—join forces to foil greedy land developers, corrupt politicians, and comical cops in a story that is part mystery, part ecological statement and part drama about the trials of youth.
		Thanks to the pedigree of Hiaasen’s sharp book and the loving transfer to screen by co-producers Jimmy Buffet and Frank Marshall (Seabiscuit) and Walden Media (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Holes), Hoot blends just the right amount of spunk, heart and humor into its tight 90-minute package.
		Hoot effectively portrays the trials that Roy faces because of his frequent moves from place to place, and the importance of having friends and understanding parents to carry him through.
	www.umc.org /site/c.gjJTJbMUIuE/b.1633251/k.BD58/Hoot.htm (837 words)

	HOOT
		Hiaasen’s panache for grizzly adult novels like Sick Puppy and Basket Case may lead you to believe children’s books are outside of the author’s comfort zone, but it was his first book for kids that won the Newbery Honor Award — not a bad start in a new genre.
		Hiaasen still maintains his sharp bite and dry humor, but isn’t quite so rough around the edges for his younger readers.
		HOOT was filmed in Florida at the 35-acre tropical estate of The Bonnet House Museum & Gardens in the Fort Lauderdale Area and on the Gulf Coast island of Boca Grande to capture the natural wonders reminiscent of Hiaasen’s own Florida childhood that he romanticizes in the book.
	www.visitflorida.com /cms/d/hoot.php (285 words)

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