Nora Nickum, children’s author
@noranickumbooks.bsky.social
Author, STEM, ocean, islander.
🌊 SUPERPOD: SAVING THE ENDANGERED ORCAS OF THE PNW (‘23)
🕳️THIS BOOK IS FULL OF HOLES (’24)
🫧 THIS BOOK BUBBLES OVER (‘25)
🐋 12 DARING GRAYS (‘26)
🦍WILD MEDICINE (‘26)
She/her. Rep: Lynnette Novak
www.noranickum.com
🌊 SUPERPOD: SAVING THE ENDANGERED ORCAS OF THE PNW (‘23)
🕳️THIS BOOK IS FULL OF HOLES (’24)
🫧 THIS BOOK BUBBLES OVER (‘25)
🐋 12 DARING GRAYS (‘26)
🦍WILD MEDICINE (‘26)
She/her. Rep: Lynnette Novak
www.noranickum.com
Favorite fungi spotted yesterday. 🤩 🍄🟫
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Favorite fungi spotted yesterday. 🤩 🍄🟫
I love the spring PNW forest flowers!
April 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I love the spring PNW forest flowers!
Coyote cameo on our backyard wildlife cam. 🤩
March 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Coyote cameo on our backyard wildlife cam. 🤩
My new book is out TODAY!
This quirky picture book (ages 6-9) really pops, full as it is of fascinating bubbles—useful & entertaining, noisy & silencing, lifesaving & dangerous, microscopic & bigger than a sports stadium.
This Book Bubbles Over is illustrated by Robert Meganck & pub by Peachtree.
This quirky picture book (ages 6-9) really pops, full as it is of fascinating bubbles—useful & entertaining, noisy & silencing, lifesaving & dangerous, microscopic & bigger than a sports stadium.
This Book Bubbles Over is illustrated by Robert Meganck & pub by Peachtree.
March 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My new book is out TODAY!
This quirky picture book (ages 6-9) really pops, full as it is of fascinating bubbles—useful & entertaining, noisy & silencing, lifesaving & dangerous, microscopic & bigger than a sports stadium.
This Book Bubbles Over is illustrated by Robert Meganck & pub by Peachtree.
This quirky picture book (ages 6-9) really pops, full as it is of fascinating bubbles—useful & entertaining, noisy & silencing, lifesaving & dangerous, microscopic & bigger than a sports stadium.
This Book Bubbles Over is illustrated by Robert Meganck & pub by Peachtree.
Highlights from trip to beautiful Antigua, Guatemala, last week!
March 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Highlights from trip to beautiful Antigua, Guatemala, last week!
Beautiful goats at @jesterkingbrewery.bsky.social!
February 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Beautiful goats at @jesterkingbrewery.bsky.social!
My author copies arrived today!! This Book Bubbles Over publishes from Peachtree on March 11, and pops with fun facts and stories about bubbles in nature, engineering, cooking, and more! Robert Meganck’s art is so fun and quirky. #kidlit #stemeducation
January 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
My author copies arrived today!! This Book Bubbles Over publishes from Peachtree on March 11, and pops with fun facts and stories about bubbles in nature, engineering, cooking, and more! Robert Meganck’s art is so fun and quirky. #kidlit #stemeducation
Yay! This book—and all its many holes—is on shelves everywhere today! www.peachtreebooks.com/book/this-bo... 🕳️ 🥳
March 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Yay! This book—and all its many holes—is on shelves everywhere today! www.peachtreebooks.com/book/this-bo... 🕳️ 🥳
Such a fun book launch party at Liberty Bay Books last night! THIS BOOK IS FULL OF HOLES is ready to fill holes on bookshelves everywhere!
March 9, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Such a fun book launch party at Liberty Bay Books last night! THIS BOOK IS FULL OF HOLES is ready to fill holes on bookshelves everywhere!
Incredibly honored to have Superpod named a finalist for the Charlotte and Wilbur Award for Compassion for Animals!
February 6, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Incredibly honored to have Superpod named a finalist for the Charlotte and Wilbur Award for Compassion for Animals!
Grateful for the chance to team up with incredible artist Elly MacKay & Candlewick on this true tale of 12 gray whales that pioneered a fascinating, risky detour for food in WA on their migration north. Thanks to agent @lynnettenovak.bsky.social!
January 10, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Grateful for the chance to team up with incredible artist Elly MacKay & Candlewick on this true tale of 12 gray whales that pioneered a fascinating, risky detour for food in WA on their migration north. Thanks to agent @lynnettenovak.bsky.social!
My forthcoming picture book with Robert Meganck is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection!! Quirky nonfiction, it really is full of holes—from sinkholes to wiffle ball holes. Available for preorder now wherever you like to buy books!
January 2, 2024 at 6:11 PM
My forthcoming picture book with Robert Meganck is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection!! Quirky nonfiction, it really is full of holes—from sinkholes to wiffle ball holes. Available for preorder now wherever you like to buy books!
Author copies of Countdown from The School Magazine! My first publication in Australia 😀
December 2, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Author copies of Countdown from The School Magazine! My first publication in Australia 😀
These books are all beautiful and full of fascinating information, and also—especially for fellow PB writers—a masterclass in how we can all come at an apparently similar topic from vastly different angles, complementing and not competing at all. Check them out if you haven’t already!
November 21, 2023 at 11:20 PM
These books are all beautiful and full of fascinating information, and also—especially for fellow PB writers—a masterclass in how we can all come at an apparently similar topic from vastly different angles, complementing and not competing at all. Check them out if you haven’t already!
Lovely ferry commute view today 😍
November 16, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Lovely ferry commute view today 😍
My 7yo was so drawn to this story!
I love how @susanedrichmond.bsky.social makes field research so approachable & interesting, & shows Sova learning the rewards of waiting.
And the way illustrator Maribel Lechuga portrays changing light throughout the night.
😍 🦉 🌝
I love how @susanedrichmond.bsky.social makes field research so approachable & interesting, & shows Sova learning the rewards of waiting.
And the way illustrator Maribel Lechuga portrays changing light throughout the night.
😍 🦉 🌝
November 13, 2023 at 5:59 PM
My 7yo was so drawn to this story!
I love how @susanedrichmond.bsky.social makes field research so approachable & interesting, & shows Sova learning the rewards of waiting.
And the way illustrator Maribel Lechuga portrays changing light throughout the night.
😍 🦉 🌝
I love how @susanedrichmond.bsky.social makes field research so approachable & interesting, & shows Sova learning the rewards of waiting.
And the way illustrator Maribel Lechuga portrays changing light throughout the night.
😍 🦉 🌝
This fungus looks like coral! 🤩
October 22, 2023 at 11:40 PM
This fungus looks like coral! 🤩
That color!! It’s like the fungus wanted some fall color, too. 😍 🍄
October 21, 2023 at 2:52 AM
That color!! It’s like the fungus wanted some fall color, too. 😍 🍄
This feels like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing… my book, Superpod, is in the New York Review of Books!!
October 12, 2023 at 8:27 PM
This feels like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing… my book, Superpod, is in the New York Review of Books!!
I love this one that looks all ruffly!
Fungi are amazing. 🍄
Fungi are amazing. 🍄
October 11, 2023 at 3:08 PM
I love this one that looks all ruffly!
Fungi are amazing. 🍄
Fungi are amazing. 🍄
Fun upcoming book event in Redmond WA with 3 other STEM kidlit authors!
Hope locals will join us on 10/21, 2 pm at Brick & Mortar Books to chat about 🌳 🪨 🐳 🦝 🐝
Hope locals will join us on 10/21, 2 pm at Brick & Mortar Books to chat about 🌳 🪨 🐳 🦝 🐝
October 5, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Fun upcoming book event in Redmond WA with 3 other STEM kidlit authors!
Hope locals will join us on 10/21, 2 pm at Brick & Mortar Books to chat about 🌳 🪨 🐳 🦝 🐝
Hope locals will join us on 10/21, 2 pm at Brick & Mortar Books to chat about 🌳 🪨 🐳 🦝 🐝
Fall forest finds = fungi! 🍄
October 3, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Fall forest finds = fungi! 🍄
I got to do a fun SUPERPOD author event at the local library today, and the children’s librarian prepped this fabulous orca craft project for all the kids to do!
October 1, 2023 at 12:10 AM
I got to do a fun SUPERPOD author event at the local library today, and the children’s librarian prepped this fabulous orca craft project for all the kids to do!
More amazing fungus among-us! Feels like a forest treasure hunt.
September 27, 2023 at 2:32 AM
More amazing fungus among-us! Feels like a forest treasure hunt.
Hi friends! I write nonfiction picture books and middle grade books about fascinating animals, STEM topics, and more. More info at noranickum.com
September 25, 2023 at 8:35 PM
Hi friends! I write nonfiction picture books and middle grade books about fascinating animals, STEM topics, and more. More info at noranickum.com