Nina Crews

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.

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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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

Congratulations!

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military.

Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

Hello Philly! I am participating in the 33rd Annual African American Children’s Book Fair on February 1, 2025 between 1-4pm. Check the link for more info. theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org