Nina Crews
@ninacrews.bsky.social
Children's book author and illustrator
Visit me at www.ninacrews.com
Visit me at www.ninacrews.com
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Nina Crews
@ninacrews.bsky.social
· May 20
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
@galltzacker.bsky.social
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
@galltzacker.bsky.social
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!
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Happy book birthday to Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar and Revolutions Are Made Of Love!
Happiest of book birthdays to two picture books I adore! LIFTOFF! by @ninacrews.bsky.social and REVOLUTIONS ARE MADE OF LOVE by @sunyungshin.bsky.social, Mélina Mangal, and Leslie Barlow. 🎉📚🎉
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy book birthday to Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar and Revolutions Are Made Of Love!
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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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.
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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If you’re wondering why Mike Johnson has so much time to lie about peaceful protests, it’s because he keeps canceling House business to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance premium hikes: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
October 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you’re wondering why Mike Johnson has so much time to lie about peaceful protests, it’s because he keeps canceling House business to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance premium hikes: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
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.
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.
Absolutely thrilled by this Kirkus star for LIFTOFF! by @ninacrews.bsky.social: "A powerful paean to both the space program and a noteworthy artist."
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
LIFTOFF! | Kirkus Reviews
The 1969 Apollo 10 mission—considered the “dress rehearsal” for Apollo 11 and the moon landing—inspires Alma Thomas, a Black abstract painter, to create an iconic painting, Snoopy Sees a Sunrise.
www.kirkusreviews.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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.
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.
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* EXTRAORDINARY MAGIC - @ninacrews.bsky.social
I LIVED INSIDE A WHALE
REMEMBERING ROSALIND FRANKLIN
WONDERFUL GOODBYES
* titles of outstanding merit
I LIVED INSIDE A WHALE
REMEMBERING ROSALIND FRANKLIN
WONDERFUL GOODBYES
* titles of outstanding merit
June 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
* EXTRAORDINARY MAGIC - @ninacrews.bsky.social
I LIVED INSIDE A WHALE
REMEMBERING ROSALIND FRANKLIN
WONDERFUL GOODBYES
* titles of outstanding merit
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
educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/27/
educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/27/
June 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/27/
educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/27/
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...
June 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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...
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
@galltzacker.bsky.social
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
@galltzacker.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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
@galltzacker.bsky.social
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
@galltzacker.bsky.social
Reposted by Nina Crews
Authors, we do not have to bow to Meta AI stealing our work. Let’s write and put Mark Zuckerberg on notice: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
#authors #writers #poets #kidlit
#authors #writers #poets #kidlit
Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
actionnetwork.org
March 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Authors, we do not have to bow to Meta AI stealing our work. Let’s write and put Mark Zuckerberg on notice: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
#authors #writers #poets #kidlit
#authors #writers #poets #kidlit
Reposted by Nina Crews
“Feelings of autonomy, belonging, and camaraderie pervade the pages” of Nina Crews’s “busy slice-of-life picture book” BIG FAMILY BEACH DAY
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 ...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“Feelings of autonomy, belonging, and camaraderie pervade the pages” of Nina Crews’s “busy slice-of-life picture book” BIG FAMILY BEACH DAY
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
January 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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
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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.
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.
January 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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.
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
January 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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