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🎈Celebrating World Read Aloud Day!🎈 So fun today to zoom in to read a chapter from BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU to two six grade classes at Polly Ryon Middle School in Richmond, Texas. Great questions from the kids! #WRAD #kidlitnonfiction
I told the kids they got an exclusive! Pub date is March 24.
This is the cover of BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU: THE STORIED LIFE OF URSULA NORDSTROM, EDITOR OF EXTRAORDINARY CHILDREN'S BOOKS. The entire cover is in light green-blue. At the top is the Title--in bold Purple. Subtitle is in kelly green. The bottom two thirds is a drawing of Ursula, with her dog in her lap, at her typewriter, sitting upon a huge pile of books. There are "Easter Eggs," that is, visual cues to some of the books she edited, including a spider in a web in the upper right hand corner from CHARLOTTE'S WEB. Among the books, there is a purple crayon from HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON, a crown from WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, a bowl of mush from GOODNIGHT MOON, a planted carrot from THE CARROT SEED and bunny ears from THE RUNAWAY BUNNY.
February 5, 2026 at 1:19 AM
shebakes.bsky.social
NgL I chuckled after reading this post because this was the very next post on my feed
Special thanks to Publishers Weekly for this lovely review of BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU: THE STORIED LIFE OF URSULA NORDSTROM, EDITOR OF EXTRAORDINARY CHILDREN'S BOOKS #kidlitnonfiction @publisherswkly.bsky.social bit.ly/4sDSufG T Books Good Enough for You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extra... In this intriguing biography, debut author Hudgins pays tribut
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
nancyhudgins.com
Special thanks ❤️ to Publishers Weekly for this lovely review of BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU: THE STORIED LIFE OF URSULA NORDSTROM, EDITOR OF EXTRAORDINARY CHILDREN'S BOOKS.❤️ #kidlitnonfiction @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Books Good Enough for You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children’s Books by Nancy Hudgins
In this intriguing biography, debut author Hudgins pays tribute to acclaimed editor Ursula Nordstrom (1910–1988), who shaped 20t...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:03 AM
nancyhudgins.com
Dear Greenlanders—Take courage from your Icelandic neighbors: Read I DARE! I CAN! I WILL!: THE DAY THE ICELANDIC WOMEN WALKED OUT AND INSPIRED THE WORLD, by author-illus. Linda Olafsdottir. It’s about equal rights, but its message speaks to this moment. #kidlitnonfiction
#PB
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Many thanks to Kirkus Reviews for this enthusiastic review of BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! #kidlitnonfiction #kidlit #UrsulaNordstrom

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December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
nancyhudgins.com
Many thanks to Kirkus Reviews for this enthusiastic review of BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! #kidlitnonfiction #kidlit #UrsulaNordstrom

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BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU | Kirkus Reviews
Only the rarest kind of best was good enough for this editor.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
nancyhudgins.com
November 13 is the book birthday for🎈🎈WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE!🎈🎈 In February 1963, #Sendak mentioned to his editor, #UrsulaNordstrom, that he had a book idea about wild horses. She encouraged him to write it. Nine months later it was published. #kidlitnonfiction #kidlit #thegoodolddays #BOOKSGEFY
The book jacket has a Caldecott in the lower left hand corner, partially obscuring the sailboat on the river headed toward one of the Wild Things. The boat is light orange with yellow sails. To the right is a huge Wild Thing, taking up three quarters of the book. His eyes are closed and he's faintly smiling. He's sitting on a small spit of land in the forefront with one hand resting on his knee and his head is resting in his hand. While he has the body of a monster, with gray fur, horns coming out of his head, a pig-like snout and claws on his hand, his feet are human feet. Also in the foreground are two palm trees, their leaves painted a rose color. In the background is the other bank of the river with six varied trees against the blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
macappiello.bsky.social
Looking forward to tomorrow’s session @usbby.bsky.social/IBBY Regional! #nonfiction #kidlit #kidlitnonfiction #knowvember
dheiligman.bsky.social Deborah Heiligman (she/her) @dheiligman.bsky.social · Nov 6
@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
dheiligman.bsky.social
@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
nancyhudgins.com
My #MG recommendations were:

365 DAYS TO ALASKA, by @cathycarrwrites.bsky.social
#kidlit

TWELVE DAYS IN MAY: FREEDOM RIDE, 1961, by Larry Dane Brimner #kidlitnonfiction
It's a colorful cover. The main character is drawn in the center foreground. She's wearing boots, brown sienna pants and a navy blue T-shirt; she has a purple lumberman's shirt tied around her waist. She is facing right, taking a step. from a meadow with a stream beyond and white-capped mountains beyond that, into a paved asphalt road on her right, with two wooden houses painted in neutral yellow-white and the ocean beyond--signifying her journey from Alaska to the Connecticut suburbs. The cover is black. The title and subtitle take up most of it. To the left is the well-deserved Sibert Medal awarded to the author. Underneath it is a picture of a Greyhound bus from 1961. The words in the title are in gray and white, except May, which is in red. The subtitle words are in blue. It's striking.
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
nancyhudgins.com
It’s coming . . .
#kidlit #biography #kidlitnonfiction
A badge or banner that reads: Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Little Free Library- Banned Book Week. Oct. 5-11, 2025. White letters on a black background. Censorship has a bold red line through it. There is a line of rainbow colored stars. The logos for little free library and banned book week also appear.
September 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
zoeamarin.bsky.social
In 1910, John Moisant was the first person to fly across the English Channel with a passenger—well, actually two passengers—his mechanic… and his cat Mademoiselle Fifi! I had fun illustrating l them in two color ways. #childrensbookillustration #kidlit #kidlitnonfiction #historicfigures
John Bevins Moisant and his cat Madamoiselle Fifi illustrated in blue and orange. John Bevins Moisant and his cat Madamoiselle Fifi illustrated in blue and green. An imagining of John Bevins Moisant and his cat Madamoiselle Fifi flying over the English Channel in 1910.
August 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
nancyhudgins.com
So grateful for Betsy Bird!
Smart. Funny. Thought-provoking. Indefatigable. Generous.
Click through to see the cover of my new book! 🎈🍾🎈
Art by Aura Lewis!
#kidlitnonfiction #UrsulaNordstrom #kidlitart #MG
#megakidlitfeed
August 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
nancyhudgins.com
Good news on BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, my biography of Ursula Nordstrom. The Cover Reveal is Coming Soon! If you'd like a sneak peek, join my mailing list: nancyhudgins.com. Be the first on your block to see it! #braggingrights #kidlitnonfiction #UrsulaNordstrom
Nancy Hudgins, Author for young and young-at heart readers
Here you’ll find information about my new book, Books Good Enough for You, puzzles about books, how to get in touch with me and more.
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August 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
nancyhudgins.com
Congrats! We all want that feeling!
#kidlit Especially #kidlitnonfiction
June 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
bandersonwriter.bsky.social
#writers #educators Organizing Facts for the Audience and Current Market by @tanyakonerman.bsky.social
AND don't miss the GIVEAWAY!! 🥳
@weboflifebooks.bsky.social #melaniecataldo #kidlitnonfiction #kidlitSTEM @edusky.bsky.social #organizingwriting bethandersonwriter.com/2025/05/30/b...
Behind the Scenes: “Organizing Facts for the Audience and Current Market” by Tanya Konerman
Ah, the fun of mud! But how does one create a viable manuscript with this topic and a pile of information? Like a mudpie, it takes some squishing and slopping and playing around. Here’s a pos…
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May 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
nancyhudgins.com
With the Statute of Liberty in the news, let’s turn to #kidlitnonfiction: SAVING LADY LIBERTY: JOSEPH PULITZER’S FIGHT FOR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by Claudia Friddell, illus. by Stacy Innerst, a #PB about France’s gift, not to President Cleveland, but to the American people. Well-researched good read
The cover is a painting of New York Harbor as it may have looked in the 1880s in the background, from the vantage point of Liberty Island. In the foreground is the title and underneath is a painting of the Statue of Liberty's torch, with a drawing of Joseph Pulitzer looking out from it.
May 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
nancyhudgins.com
Happy Book Birthday to WHEN A TREE FALLS: Nurse Logs and Their Incredible Forest Power, by @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social, illus. by Elke Boschinger! 🎈🎉🎈 It's a #kidlitnonfiction #picturebook -- with a *starred review* by PW. Congratulations! It looks fascinating! #PB #kidlit
March 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
beckylevine.bsky.social
Hashtags that should put your post into the feed: #nfkidlit, #nonfictionkidlit, #kidlitnonfiction, #kidlitnf.

Note: #nonfiction or #nf alone will not land your post in the feed.
February 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
vinpauld.bsky.social
Another of my illustrations for "Mercy," by Nancy Furstinger. In this scene, Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA, stops a horse drawn trolley that is filled beyond capacity. #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbookillustration #illustration #kidlitnonfiction #ASPCA
In this this illustration from "Mercy," by Nancy Furstinger, Henry Bergh, the founder of the ASPCA is on a New York City street where he is blocking the way of a horse drawn street car which is overflowing with people and is too heavy for the poor horses who have to pull the trolley. The time period is the late 1800s. A light snow is falling and a young family in the foreground is watching Bergh's heroic action as he tries to save the abused horses.
December 7, 2024 at 10:26 PM
colleenpaeff.bsky.social
How do you entertain yourselves while waiting for virtual school visits to start? Please tell me I’m not the only one who makes faces at myself…
#kidlit #schoolvisit #virtualvisit #kidlitnonfiction
November 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
katherinepryor.bsky.social
Grateful to see “Home is Calling” by @elliepeterson.bsky.social & me on TLA’s Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List! It’s such a wonderful roundup by some incredible creators—I’m honored to be in their company. 🧡

#kidlitnonfiction #nonfictionreadinglist
#stembooksforkids #nonfictiongems
Text reads “Home is Calling is on the 2024 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List!” It features a monarch butterfly, the book cover (a monarch butterfly on a purple flower near a lake) and an images of the state of Texas beneath the words “Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems”. Text below reads “Recommended nonfiction titles that stimulate reading for pleasure and personal learning.”
January 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM