Nancy Hudgins

The cover has a light blue background tinge. Centered in the upper third is the title and underneath is the author. The illustrators name is centered in the lower one-sixth. In the middle is Stuart, dressed in a red shirt and yellow shorts. He's steering a canoe down a stream. There are various green plants in circled around the canoe, but Stuart and the canoe are center stage.

🎈BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

Ch. 6: Stuart Little

#UrsulaNordstrom is honored to receive E. B. White’s first children’s book manuscript. Searching for the perfect artist, they agree on Garth Williams. The book is an instant bestseller. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

The cover is in a bright green showing one of the walls of the great green room. From left to right, there is a green with red striped curtain partially covering a three paned window with red molding and a view of the moon and stars in a blue background. The right upper corner has a painting of the cow jumping over the moon hanging over a fireplace with a fire. Goodnight Moon is in all caps in yellow letters in the upper one third of the cover. In the lower third are the author's and illustrator's names in a yellow, much smaller font.

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Ch. 5: Goodnight Moon

#UrsulaNordstrom edits Goodnight Moon. It is NOT an overnight success. She works with Margaret on additional manuscripts, accepting some, rejecting some. And, Ursula meets the love of her life. #nonfictionkidtlit #abramsbooks

The cover of the Runaway Bunny has drawings of a mother bunny and her baby bunny in the lower left quadrant. The author's and illustrators names are in black ink in the lower right quadrant. They are in the same field as the bunnies, a field of light green grass and flowers. The top half of the cover is in sky blue and the title is in white letters, filling up the top half.

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Ch. 4 The Runaway Bunny

#UrsulaNordstrom begins a life-long friendship with Margaret Wise Brown, edits The Runaway Bunny, and learns about lyrical picture books from Margaret. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

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Ch. 3: The Tot Department.

#UrsulaNordstrom meets cool, creative people, starts learning how to be an editor, begins to fashion her unique, breezy style and types the first of 100,000 (sic) editorial and business letters. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

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Ch. 2: Ursula Finds Her Passion.
#UrsulaNordstrom takes an entry-level job at Harper & Brothers, publishers. Ultimately, she transfers to the Department for Boys and Girls—and finds her passion: publishing books for children. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

🎈BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, Ch. 1: First Chapter.
#UrsulaNordstrom is born to show biz parents. She sees them act on Broadway. Life is sweet; then, they divorce. At 16, the L.A. Times publishes her poem. She leaves high school before graduating. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

There’s always a post…

🎈BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU. Introduction.
#UrsulaNordstrom wants to publish books that are "fresh, original and honest," because “Anything else is not good enough for a child." Thus, the title. Anne Carroll Moore challenges her credentials and Ursula stands up to her. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

I love this bsky community, so every day until pub day (3/24/26) I’ll give a **sneak peek** into how I organized my research and wrote my biography of #UrsulaNordstrom: BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, by posting a note about each chapter and sidebar. #nonfictionkidlit

You might enjoy my biography of Ursula Nordstrom, the children’s editor at Harper & Row who edited Charlotte’s Web, Where the Wild Things Are, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Goodnight Moon and many more. It’s out 3/24/26:
Books Good Enough For You.
Meant sincerely—Forgive banging my own drum.

Sorry. Earlier this year they changed their name to @boydsmills.bsky.social You can find them there. #kidlit

Same here—that’s how most people our age remember Highlights. They started a foundation to support/teach children’s book writers. I’ve attended many—they’ve been great! @highlightsfound.bsky.social
#kidlit

Intricate and beautiful

Reminds of the game with kids…Which would you rather do?…

Me, too! It’s was fun, and nice that they were engaged.

A bright royal/navy blue door takes up the entire cover. It's slightly open, and Emily is peering out. You can see her face and hair and parts of her bright red dress. The door she is opening is on the left, on the right is the other side of the door and the title is in lower-case white paint, each word appearing underneath the word before it. The author's and illustrator's names are below in smaller white type.

Run--don't walk--to your local bookstore to get @melrosenberg.bsky.social's #PB EMILY SAW A DOOR, illus. by Orit Magia. Yesterday was it's American 🎈Book Birthday🎈!
Congratulations for a lovely book about perseverance, imagination and finally, an invitation to all! #kidlit

Thank you! Hope you like it!

Thanks! Although it's a biography, it also is, in a sense, narrative nonfiction, as I wrote 16 chapters about the making of 16 iconic books she edited--introducing those authors and illustrators and the creative process behind each of those books. I hope you like it!

Books Good Enough for You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books A celebration of the life and work of Ursula Norstrom—the groundbreaking editor of classic children’s books like Charlotte’s Web and Where the Wild Things Are—and a powerful defense of a child’s right to read Legendary Harper & Row children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom was a trailblazer. Her books were honest, smart, emotional, and firsts of their kind. And—perhaps because they challenged the status quo—they were often censored or banned. But Nordstrom always fought back.Books Good Enough for You follows Nordstrom from childhood through her extraordinary career as book editor, literary revolutionary, and advocate. Full of anecdotes about some of Nordstrom’s most famous collaborators, like Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown, and E. B. White, this biography is a true celebration of collaboration and friendship. Many of Nordstrom’s books—from to Where the Wild Things Are to Charlotte’s Web—are now considered classics, but back in her day, these stories faced fierce opposition from those who deemed them inappropriate for children. In the face of this criticism, Nordstrom pushed back, building up her authors and proudly defending young readers’ access to literature that reflected their worlds. Filled with quotes from her eloquent, empathetic, and often sharply humorous editorial letters, Books Good Enough for You is a timely reminder that children deserve fresh, groundbreaking, and deeply human stories.

🎈Signed🎈inscribed🎈 copies of
BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?
You can pre-order from napabookmine.com/book/9781419...
Fill out the “Customer Comments” at the bottom of the order form for a signed copy, and add specific wording if you’d like an inscription. Pub date is 3/24/26 #excited #nonfictionkidlit

Ahh. The #writinglife. Way to go!

Thanks! It was fun!

Love these stairs!

Folx: We need to repost this statistic.

Mine’s chock full of children’s books. So gratifying—and fun!— to see kids dance away with a new book!

Congratulations, @menekarepka.bsky.social !
Can’t wait to see what you’ve done!
#kidlitart

Oops. Thought you were talking about my book. Sorry. Same answer though.

Thank you! It was fun doing all the research!
It’s online almost everywhere—try your local bookstore or bookshop.org.

Congratulations @librarianjones.com !
The court has allowed Ms. Jones to proceed with her defamation suit against those who said she was promoting pornography to children, when, in fact, she was standing up for
children’s right to read.

The cover is in shades of white to light blue. A drawing of Sylvia Plath with an open notebook, surrounded by bees, is in the mid-center. She is wearing a blue blouse with cap sleeves. It's beautifully rendered. The title and subtitle are in a bluish purple.

🎈Happy Book Birthday🎈to THE POET AND THE BEES: A STORY OF THE SEASONS SYLVIA PLATH KEPT BEES, by Amy Novesky, illus. by Jessica Love. A #PB bio that delights with lyricism and beautifully rendered art. Not only is it a beautiful book, it will broaden your understanding of Plath. #nonfictionkidlit

Wonderful!