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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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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
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I'd love to see more non-dominant perspectives on US history, for picture book thru YA. #mswl