Dana Chidiac

Editor

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

FUNNY PICTURE BOOKS ABOUT BLACK AND BROWN KIDS PLEASE THANKS #mswl (this tweet comes apropos of nothing except it's what my brain is always screaming)

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

I watched Turning Red yesterday and I think I might watch it again today?? The friendship, the aunties, the extreme muchness of thirteen-year-old girls, I want it alwayssss #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL
Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL
Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Anything about language, whether that's visual (I once saw an internet thing where the animals were made out of Arabic script 🤯) or a plot thing (about an English language learner? About... spelling???? 👀) or a nonfiction thing (hello emojis). #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Middle grade about the spaces where kids get to feel like themselves, like camp, or the treehouse they spent all summer saving up to buy with their friends (ahem) #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Picture books with great visual storytelling (or texts that leave lots of space for it) #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL
Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Graphic novels in the vein of Smile by creators of color. Scripts are welcome, so are author/illustrators! #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Stories about immigrant communities across the age spectrum #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Novels with settings that are unfamiliar to American readers
Novels with characters that are unfamiliar with American settings
#mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Epistolary everything! And anything that plays with format, especially if it feels internetty #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Novels that address religion for MG and YA, because both religion and books for kids and teens are about finding your place in a big world #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

YA about moving on from high school! Anything about college admissions, the summer after senior year, freshman year of college (or of life) #mswl

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Welcome to 2020, publishing! Agent friends, here’s a #mswl thread for pinning and perusing and adding to all year.

Forever, I’m looking for PB, MG, and YA, especially by underrepresented creators, especially contemporary fiction that leads with joy.

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL
Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Does there exist a YA heist/cozy mystery entitled Be Gay Do Crimes? If not, dibs.

(also every idea i have these days is actually just a meme #mswl)

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL

Dana Chidiac @chidiaqian

The existence of this show is the most important news of my twitter hiatus.

Also, when I say "YA about religion" on my #mswl, I mean books that handle religion the way this show does: as one part of the push-pull of regular life, as one part of figuring out the complicated shape of the world

Dana Chidiac
@chidiaqian
Editor
Senior Editor at Holt BFYR. I spend a lot of time thinking about how things—words, streets, yarn, and food—fit together. Tweets are mine.
29 MSWL