Cheryl B. Klein
@chavelaque
Editorial director at Lee & Low Books; author of THE MAGIC WORDS, WINGS, and THUNDER TRUCKS; new mom. Books, writing, politics, diversity, & goofiness. She/her.
Brooklyn, NY
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · Nov 23
carlydraws @carlydraws
@chavelaque What subject would you like to see more books about?A PB on the Atlanta washerwoman’s strike, or Pullman porters, or the Chicano rights movement; MG novels starring boys of color doing sports; MG or YA NF on topics of POC history #mswl
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · Nov 19
Rebecca Traister @rtraister
The 1881 Atlanta Washerwomen strike! Everyone should read @TeraWHunter's great book, To 'Joy My Freedom, which chronicles the story of the washerwomen: hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is… twitter.com/ewarren/status…Black authors! Write me a picture book about this, please! 👇👇👇 #mswl
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · May 30
Rebecca Theodore-Vachon @FilmFatale_NYC
I want this movie (or miniseries) twitter.com/twmentality1/s…And I want to publish this picture book! #MSWL
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · May 26
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque
I enjoyed TSIAAS, but I kept being distracted by calculating their routes & travel times around NYC. “She could *maybe* get there in half an hour if she takes the B to the A & all the trains arrive just right...”FYI, if it’s legally possible, I would 100% publish an #ownvoices YA novel about a teenage girl or boy in the Motown star system. Signed, someone who read DREAMGIRL: MY LIFE AS A SUPREME in high school & *loved* it. #mswl
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · Jan 30
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque
I found an exit out of Grand Central that I had never used before, & it got me two blocks closer to my destination than I expected. In this cold, that counts as a New York Win (tm).Also, surely there is a fantasy novel featuring Grand Central as a wild nexus of portals to magical worlds? If not, I would love for an author of color to write that & send it to me. #MSWL
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · Jan 9
Writers, agents: I would REALLY like a quality biographical #ownvoices picture-book MS about Bayard Rustin -- one that honors his integrity & complexity. Hook me up in 2019? #MSWL npr.org/2019/01/06/682…
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 12 Sep 2018
Coming late to #MSWL Day: Educational PBs that read like trade ones; character-driven MG; truth-telling YA; all of it diverse; #ownvoices preferred.
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 20 Apr 2018
I'm reading a YA novel where the protagonist measures herself against her confident, bubbly, flirty best friend, & *just once* I'd like a submission where that best friend is the protagonist. #mswl
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 23 Mar 2018
Ibi Zoboi @ibizoboi
We need more diverse children's historical fiction. Because history.🙋🏼🙋🏼🙋🏼 #MSWL & watch for THE WIND CALLED MY NAME and ALL THE STARS DENIED from @tubooks this fall!
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 17 Mar 2018
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccracken
When will Hazel Scott get the biopic she deserves? smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/h…Dang, this woman was amazing: Juilliard at age 8, her own TV show in the 1950s, stood up to HUAC. Write me a PB bio, pls! #MSWL
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 24 Feb 2018
Ibi Zoboi @ibizoboi
We love Martin & Malcolm, of course. But what abt Marcus? There are virtually no mainstream pub'd children's books abt Marcus Garvey & the Back to Africa Movement & the Black Star Line. Why not? Malcolm's parents were Garveyites.I would LOVE a Marcus Garvey book for @LEEandLOW. #MSWL
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 3 Dec 2017
Tracey the Hutt @TraceyBaptiste
Nanny, a Jamaican Maroon who held the British off from escaped slaves by establishing lookouts, a communication network, and disguising her soldiers as trees and teaching them to be still and slow their breathing so they could attack w/o warning. twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…Aw, hell, any reply to this starring a WOC is #MSWL
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 3 Dec 2017
Samantha Mash 🌲 @anamericanghost
Khutulun was the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan. She was a strong fighter and insisted that any man who wished to marry her must defeat her in wrestling, but any man who she beat would have to give her a horse. She wound up with 10,000 horses. twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 10 Oct 2017
wendy wu 🇳🇬 @M_eazyyyy
Netflix just picked up a show centered around a single black mother who’s raising a black 7 year old kid who has superpowers, I can’t wait!! pic.twitter.com/Z23DgcJuRrThis sounds so cool & I would love to read/publish the MG/YA version. #MSWL
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 9 Oct 2017
Alia Jones @readitrealgood
I'd love a graphic novel about Jim Thorpe and Duke Kahanamoku's friendship.#MSWL for me as well. But in the meantime, @LEEandLOW has picture books about both!
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 11 Aug 2017
The New Yorker @NewYorker
After thirty-three years, the National Double Dutch League’s Summer Classic returns to Lincoln Center Out of Doors. pic.twitter.com/LDTKPhS51C#MSWL a novel about these girls & their friendships/rivalries RIGHT NOW please
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 20 Jul 2017
ICYMI, I tweeted last night about #betterAltUSHistory. All of those ideas are #MSWL, too, esp. written by POC/Native writers.
Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque · 20 Jun 2017
Philip Lewis @Phil_Lewis_
50 years ago on this date, Muhammad Ali was convicted of draft evasion for refusing to serve.“I aint got no quarrel with them Viet Cong." pic.twitter.com/bQDBMU2UoM
I'd love to see a picture book focused on this side of Muhammad Ali. #mswl