Nina Crews

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February 13, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Nina Crews on Virginia Hamilton: The Complete Interview

Please enjoy the unexpurgated edition of my recent interview with Nina Crews about her new picture book biography of Virginia Hamilton.

August 13, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Cover Reveal and Interviews: Talking with Nina Crews and Angela Johnson

Angela Johnson has more than forty books to her name and she can write the gamut from board books to YA. This year, she's giving us a poem-turned-book called A Girl Like Me, with illustrated photography by Nina Crews. Naturally I'd like to show you the cover, but first I had some questions for the creators.

May 23, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Seeing Into Tomorrow by Richard Wright and Nina Crews

Seeing Into Tomorrow Haiku by Richard Wright Biography and illustrations by Nina Crews Millbrook Press (a division of Lerner) $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-5124-1865-1 Ages 6-10 On shelves now I hate that phrase, “A picture’s worth a thousand words”. It’s trite. Simplistic. And horrendously true. Pictures have power. Take the story that’s been handed to us about […]

Photography and Fiction

March 2, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Back in November I speculated as to whether or not a book containing photography, and just photography, could ever win a Caldecott Award. Today my thoughts turn elsewhere. Just yesterday I sat in on the Penguin Young Readers Group librarian preview for the May-August 2011 season (round-up to come). The folks there had to go […]