Favorite fungi spotted yesterday. 🤩 🍄‍🟫

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.

I love the spring PNW forest flowers!

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

Fabulous book on an irresistable topic!

Coyote cameo on our backyard wildlife cam. 🤩

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

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.

Thank you @steamteambooks.bsky.social and @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social for sharing these upcoming #STEM #kidlit books. More info here: tinyurl.com/ymvuw5jk @shreevebooks.bsky.social @katehanniganbooks.bsky.social @sarahalbee.bsky.social @noranickumbooks.bsky.social

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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!!

this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career

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

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!

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

So cool to see SUPERPOD on the UChicago Law School faculty’s list of favorite 2023 books! webcast-law.uchicago.edu/facultyreadi...

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!

Lovely ferry commute view today 😍

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

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. 😍 🦉 🌝

This fungus looks like coral! 🤩

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!!

I love this one that looks all ruffly! 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 🌳 🪨 🐳 🦝 🐝

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!

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

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

Barred owl in the rain 😍

It’s a #fungi clock!

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

Spotted this fabulous #fungi today!