CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books: A Discussion with Leonard Marcus and a Team of Featured Photographers - A Fuse #8 Production "I think we all have experienced the outsider status of being an illustrator whose work is photographic." Meet a slew of talented photographers, alongside a featured interview with curator/scholar Leo...

Thank you Betsy Bird for this great feature about CLICK!: Photographers Make Picture Books. CLICK! will be on view at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Illustration through June 7th.

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Hope to see you at the Poughkeepsie Children’s Book Festival this Saturday, March 28, from 10am - 3pm! You will find over 100 of us authors and illustrators at the Falcon Hall at Dutchess Community College. Children under 17 receive a $15 book voucher and admission is free!!

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"The colors pop and glow. They shimmy, shake, and dance across the canvas. Slowly, steadily, the idea that Alma had in her mind takes shape."- @ninacrews.bsky.social

My review: www.jeannewalkerharvey.com/single-post/... @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social

Thank you for this review Jeanne! So glad that we have both brought Alma’s story to young readers!!

Front cover of the picture book One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon

Front cover of the picture book A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story by Caren Stelson, illustrated by Akira Kusaka

Front cover of the picture book Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Front cover of the picture book Liftoff! How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas's Art Soar by author and illustrator Nina Crews

Sharing a few favorite picture books in honor of International Women's Day yesterday. So grateful to have worked with these wonderful authors and illustrators!

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Thrilled to be speaking at the New England SCBWI conference in May!

Thank you!!

In February, as well as all year long, we celebrate the joy, bravery, tenacity, and kindness of African American culture globally.
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Celebrate Black History this month with these special Diverse Picture Books for Black History Month we chose.
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Check out this conversation between Steven Heller and Leonard Marcus about photo illustrated children’s books!

A graphic that shows the covers of the following seven picture books: Liftoff! How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas's Art Soar by Nina Crews; Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and Peace by Caren Stelson, illustrated by Amanda Yoshida; Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs by Sun Yung Shin and Melina Mangal, illustrated by Leslie Barlow; Kaho'olawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People by Kamalani Hurley, illustrated by Harinani Orme; We Are the Scrappy Ones by Rebekah Taussig, illustrated by Kirbi Fagan; The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; and The Black Mambas: The World's First All-Woman Anti-Poaching Unit by Kelly Crull.

Oh my goodness! So proud to see so many of our books on the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Books of 2025 list. Congratulations to all!! 🎉📚🎉

New and Noteworthy Children’s and YA Books: November 2025 Young readers can look forward to a picture book about the pleasures of observation, a middle grade historical caper, a YA tale of time travel, and more notable titles hitting shelves this month.

Thank you Publisher’s Weekly for including Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar in your November roundup of new and noteworthy books for kids!

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Happy book birthday to Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar and Revolutions Are Made Of Love!

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Happy book birthday to Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar

Please join me Sunday November 9th at the Brooklyn Museum Children’s Book Fair 11am-3:30pm. Read aloud at 12pm.

LIFTOFF! launch party at the Sugar Hill Children’s Musuem on November 16th 2-4pm.

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Wow indeed! Great story. I wonder where the artists are now.

Fantastic!

Thank you Kirkus reviews for this starred review!

African American artist, Alma Thomas, made more than 20 abstract paintings inspired by space exploration. This STEAM picture book looks at the creation the painting “Snoopy Sees a Sunrise” and at the Apollo 10 Mission which inspired it.

* EXTRAORDINARY MAGIC - @ninacrews.bsky.social
I LIVED INSIDE A WHALE
REMEMBERING ROSALIND FRANKLIN
WONDERFUL GOODBYES

* titles of outstanding merit

Bank Street Center for Children's Literature has chosen EXTRAORDINARY MAGIC: THE STORYTELLING LIFE OF VIRGINIA HAMILTON for their Best Books 2025 Edition & cited it for “Outstanding Merit”! Honored! @bankstreet.edu @galltzacker.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social
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Flyer for storytime even with Nina Crews at Books Are Magic 6/8/25

I’m so looking forward to this story time event featuring Big Family Beach Day at Books Are Magic Montague Street this coming Sunday at 11am! www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-s...

Storytime with the Author | Nina Crews To The Beach We Go! Put on your sunscreen and grab your flipflops because Books of Wonder is hosting NINA CREWS for a storytime with her heartwarming new picture book: Big Family Beach Day!  When Maya...

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Happy birthday BIG FAMILY BEACH DAY! Inspired by decades of beach adventures with family and friends. Now available in stores!

Please join me at story time events in June!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC Sunday, June 8, 11 am
BOOKS OF WONDER Saturday, June 21, 11:30am
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Happy birthday!

Big Family Beach Day by Nina Crews Crews (Extraordinary Magic) pays homage to fond families and beatific beach days in this busy slice-of-life picture book. Young ...

“Feelings of autonomy, belonging, and camaraderie pervade the pages” of Nina Crews’s “busy slice-of-life picture book” BIG FAMILY BEACH DAY

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So thrilled to be a part of this amazing lineup of authors and illustrators for the 33rd Annual African American Children's Book Fair! Don't miss this FREE event taking place on Saturday February 1, 2025! See you in Philadelphia! theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org