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Kim Campbell @pblove.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I love water - it’s healing & life giving properties & Beauty! And I love these new picture books by Namita Moolani Mehra, Khoa Le, @noranickumbooks.bsky.social, & Elly MacKay! Check them out through your local library or favorite indie bookstore!😍📚💗🎉🌟 They’re sure to touch your heart!💗✨ #KidLit

Screenshot of front cover of picture book, The Greatest River, written by Namita Moolani Mehra & illustrated by Khoa Le

Screenshot of front cover of picture book, Twelve Daring Grays: A Whale Migration Adventure, written by Nora Nickum & illustrated by Elly MacKay

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Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

2 terrific @steamteambooks.bsky.social authors share inspiration & insights into their new STEM books releasing in February. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post-... @noranickumbooks.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social @patricianewman.bsky.social #interview #science #biography #kidlit 📚👍

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Kelsey E. Gross @kelseyegross.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

THRILLED to get my copy of Twelve Daring Grays by my writing pal, @noranickumbooks.bsky.social. Absolutely stunning! I was captivated by this story and the gorgeous art by Elly MacKay. It is a MUST read! #picturebooks #kidlit

Cover of the picture book TWELVE DARING GRAYS by Nora Nickum and Elly MacKay. Picture of gray whales swimming in the ocean, there is a sunrise and land in the distance.

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My new picture book is out in the world today! TWELVE DARING GRAYS: A WHALE MIGRATION ADVENTURE is beautifully illustrated by Elly MacKay and published by Candlewick. See here in the Seattle Aquarium gift shop. 🐋 😃 📖

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Favorite fungi spotted yesterday. 🤩 🍄‍🟫

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Dawn Simon @dawnsimon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

SUPERPOD: SAVING THE ENDANGERED ORCAS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST by @noranickumbooks.bsky.social is perfect for the whale lovers in your family or school--or pod. :) The target audience is 8-12, it's nonfiction, and it's terrific.

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Ann Marie Stephens @amstephens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

So many bubbles 🫧 in 1st and 2nd grade! @noranickumbooks.bsky.social #robertmeganck #peachtreepublishing 📚 👍🏼 #steamteam #stem @steamteambooks.bsky.social

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Susan Edwards Richmond @susanedrichmond.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Fabulous book on an irresistable topic!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Coyote cameo on our backyard wildlife cam. 🤩

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Kelsey E. Gross @kelseyegross.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This new #picturebook is a must-read-- a fascinating look at all the different bubbles in our world! Sure to spark kids' curiosity (and adults' too!). Congrats @noranickumbooks.bsky.social and Robert Meganck on this STEM gem!!! #kidlit

Cover of the picture book, THIS BOOK BUBBLES OVER by Nora Nickum and Robert Meganck. A boy is blowing bubbles while a girl in the background is holding a giant bubble wand.

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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.

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Highlights from trip to beautiful Antigua, Guatemala, last week!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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

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Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

4 talented @steamteambooks.bsky.social authors discuss their STEM books which released this March. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Michelle Schaub Sleeping Bear Books Katy Tanis Mudpuppy @noranickumbooks.bsky.social Peachtree Leslie Barnard Booth Simon & Schuster

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Yay! This book—and all its many holes—is on shelves everywhere today! www.peachtreebooks.com/book/this-bo... 🕳️ 🥳

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Skylaar Amann @skylaar.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

In a fun coincidence, my friend @noranickumbooks.bsky.social and I both have hole-themed books coming out next week! If you’re a fan of sitting in a hole in the ground when you need a break or learning about real-world holes in their many forms, check out these books!

Two picture book covers with a graphic of a shovel. The text says “On March 26, dig up two new picture books!” The book names are Alone Sometimes: Everybody Needs a Hole in the Ground, by Skylaar Amann and This Book Is Full Of Holes, by Nora Nickum.

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

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!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Incredibly honored to have Superpod named a finalist for the Charlotte and Wilbur Award for Compassion for Animals!

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Melissa Stiveson @dstiveson.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Book Review: This Book is Full of Holes Written by Nora Nickum Illustrated by Robert Meganck Check out my review here: sites.google.com/view/melissa... Spoiler Alert - I love it!!

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career

How to make a cephalopod. (With cartoony drawings)
1. Remove limbs. (Smiling human with dotted lines at shoulders and hips)
2. Attach to lips. (Human with flat mouth expression, just head and torso. Arms and legs are floating above with arrows pointing from them to lips)
3. See? It works. (Smiling human cephalopod with arms and legs around mouth. Drawing of an octopus shows anatomical similarity.)

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Such a lovely interview— I can’t wait to read this book!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

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!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

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!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

So honored to have Superpod: Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest included on Melissa’s list! 🐳

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Author copies of Countdown from The School Magazine! My first publication in Australia 😀

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

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!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I’ll be at Portland Audubon’s Wild Arts Festival this Saturday—come chat about books, orcas, nature, & more! There will be lots of amazing artists, authors, and a silent auction. Can’t wait! www.wildartsfestival.org

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Wild Arts Festival

Shop online at the 40th Wild Arts Festival for art and books that celebrate the natural world.

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

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. 😍 🦉 🌝

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

That color!! It’s like the fungus wanted some fall color, too. 😍 🍄

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

This feels like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing… my book, Superpod, is in the New York Review of Books!!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I love this one that looks all ruffly! Fungi are amazing. 🍄

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

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 🌳 🪨 🐳 🦝 🐝

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

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!

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Check out the cover for Skylaar’s next picture book!! This book is so good and I know will speak to many kids.

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

More amazing fungus among-us! Feels like a forest treasure hunt.

Brown and white fungus on the forest floor

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Nora Nickum, children’s author @noranickumbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Reading and studying excellent picture books as mentor texts has been incredibly helpful for me. #kidlitchat

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