Cheryl B. Klein
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Lee & Low Books
Editorial director at @LEEandLOW ; author of THE MAGIC WORDS, WINGS, THUNDER TRUCKS, & A YEAR OF EVERYDAY WONDERS (12/8); newish mom. Opinions my own. She/her.
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Certain Days @CertainDays
Fifty years ago today the Young Lords, a militant Puerto Rican liberation organization based in NYC, occupied Lincoln Hospital (aka The Butcher Shop) in the Bronx. They left behind a legacy of community health care.filtermag.org/how-the-young-… pic.twitter.com/jAqVfOP9Ix
Please, Puerto Rican writers: Write a book about the Young Lords for kids or YA and send it to me. DMs are open. #MSWL @WritersofColor
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Kyle Lukoff @Shekels_Library
Editors, agents, etc: In my 8 years as a children's librarian, all the books I've seen about police categorize them as "community helpers"; all I've wanted is a book speaking to children for whom that is not their experience.We would love to have a book like this at @LEEandLOW. #MSWL
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Are there any SFF stories/novels about a pandemic that mostly kills white people (e.g. the reverse of the one we're living now) & its effects on society? If not, & a BIPOC writer wants to write it for YA: #MSWL
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Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque
I first read them in Dell Yearling paperback editions when I was 8 or 9, and I can’t wait to read them to Dash — especially THE SATURDAYS, set in NYC.And a contemporary MG novel like this, featuring a boisterous & loving POC family, is an eternal #MSWL for me.
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Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII
I talk about this all the time but having young ppl express despair about violence/poverty in their communities, w/o helping them understand where these conditions emerge from, means they might think it has to do w/the *ppl* in those communities rather than what was done to them.I think this is a really profound point, & I would love to see some picture book MSs at @leeandlow that do this structural/societal work #MSWL
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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
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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
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Rebecca Theodore-Vachon @FilmFatale_NYC
I want this movie (or miniseries) twitter.com/twmentality1/s…And I want to publish this picture book! #MSWL
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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
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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
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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…
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Coming late to #MSWL Day: Educational PBs that read like trade ones; character-driven MG; truth-telling YA; all of it diverse; #ownvoices preferred.
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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
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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
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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
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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