Cheryl B. Klein

@chavelaque

Editor

Algonquin Young Readers

Editorial director, Algonquin Young Readers; author of THE MAGIC WORDS, HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES, & more; toddler mom. Opinions my own. She/her. #BLM

· 23 Nov 2019

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

· 19 Nov 2019

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

· 30 May 2019

Rebecca Theodore-Vachon @FilmFatale_NYC

I want this movie (or miniseries) twitter.com/twmentality1/s…

And I want to publish this picture book! #MSWL

Picture books

· 26 May 2019

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

YA
OwnVoices

· 30 Jan 2019

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

Fantasy

· 9 Jan 2019

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…

· 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.

· 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

YA

· 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!

· 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

Picture books

· 9 Mar 2018

Tu Books @tubooks

A portrait of the first woman of color to be elected to congress, who co-authored Title IX: the74million.org/article/no-one…

I want a picture book about this woman. #MSWL

Picture books

· 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.

Replying to @ibizoboi

I would LOVE a Marcus Garvey book for @LEEandLOW. #MSWL

· 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

· 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…

· 12 Nov 2017

jen ✌🏽🌈 @bookavid

i am SO DOWN for YA retellings of classics with marginalized chars. m/m Emma. Black Victor Frankenstein. LESBIAN GATSBY. DISABLED DORIAN GRAY *taps watch*

#mswl ALL DAY LONG. Send these to me, please!

· 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/Z23DgcJuRr

This sounds so cool & I would love to read/publish the MG/YA version. #MSWL

MG
YA

· 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!

Picture books

· 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

Friendship

· 20 Jul 2017

ICYMI, I tweeted last night about #betterAltUSHistory. All of those ideas are #MSWL, too, esp. written by POC/Native writers.

Diverse
POC

· 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

Picture books