Cheryl B. Klein
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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
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Ibram X. Kendi @DrIbram
This #PrideMonth, it is important to recognize non-binary and gender nonconforming people have been here from the beginning of the U.S. Here is a thread on one of the most influential such persons in early America. An abolitionist minister known as The Public Universal Friend. 1/ pic.twitter.com/2YaoROZugHI would love a picture book or novel involving the Public Universal Friend! #MSWL
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Dwayne @dwayne_media
just had an idea for a film. set in the honey i shrunk the kids universe. Guy gets shrunk down by rick moranis's shrink ray in his backyard... Spends the entire movie trying to kill an aggressive blue jay.. he has to forge his own weapons and armor, deal with loneliness, etcI *loved* HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS and would love to see them reboot it somehow. (Also a great premise for a fun middle-grade novel…. #mswl)
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I would like to find someone (with a platform, I gotta say) to write a nonfiction book for teen boys that would basically be titled HOW TO BE A MAN AND NOT AN ASSHOLE. #MSWL
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Beth @eem76
These two books still live rent free in my head 📚❤️ #FREADomfriday #booksuniteus twitter.com/momsforsj/stat… pic.twitter.com/xDeVA1JJVTAgents, I would LOVE the 2020s equivalent of any of these books below. #MSWL
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This great @annehelen interview with activist Ragen Chastain (@danceswithfat) reminds me of a #MSWL: I'd love to do a picture book about fatness and body positivity with a BIPOC team. If you have a MS, hit me up! annehelen.substack.com/p/i-had-been-h…
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There’s a picture book in this @AdamMGrant thought. Someone write it & send it to me. #MSWL
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Putting this out in the world: I love big “look books” like this & I would love to do one by a BIPOC illustrator focusing on a BIPOC community. If you’re such an illustrator & you love character, scenes, & details, hit me up! #mswl
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Dominique Jean-Louis @DominiqueJL15
A reminder that A. Philip Randolph had the space to develop his radical labor critiques because his wife Lucille was a good friend of Madam CJ Walker’s and ran a Walker salon of her own to support the two of them while he took classes and organized. twitter.com/keishablain/st… pic.twitter.com/8nHbuAUa0z#MSWL for both of the Randolphs
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Charlie Langton @charlielangton
Very happy to emcee this amazing event!!! Some of Detroit’s best dressed men competed in the Times Square competition on the Avenue Of Fashion. All were winners!!!@FOX2News @WWJ950 #detroit #fashion pic.twitter.com/ouEQVmIiEfWow, I’d love a picture book MS about something like this from a Black author — celebrating the history and present of Black men’s style. So sharp! #MSWL
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Cheryl B. Klein @chavelaque
One of the first works of art I distinctly remember seeing, in a textbook or encyclopedia when I was in third grade or so. As powerful now as it was then. pic.twitter.com/CBClilib3hI would love a picture-book biography of Oscar Micheaux by a Black writer who loves the art of film. #MSWL
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#MSWL from a Black or Inuit writer (or both) messynessychic.com/2020/02/28/the…
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Joe Shapiro @NPRJoeShapiro
Per NPR guidance to reporters: Kamala Harris is NOT first POC VP. Charles Curtis, Hoover’s VP, was member of Kaw Nation.OMG #MSWL from a member of the Kaw Nation YESTERDAY
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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