Dana Chidiac
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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.
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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)
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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
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Alyssa Jennette is closed to queries! @AlyssaJennette
I've been thinking about the effectiveness and payoff of THOI's arc/ending, and I think what I love about it is that it's VERY romantic, but not A Romance. (Nothing against romance, to be clear!) I like the hopeful contentment of the next step versus perfect fulfillment of HEA. twitter.com/AlyssaJennette…This is extremely true, and I think it’s the center of my constant #mswl for friend romance: it’s more about the characters getting to Be than about the HEA
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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
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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
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Picture books with great visual storytelling (or texts that leave lots of space for it) #mswl
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Dana Chidiac @chidiaqian
If I've fumblingly tried to describe my picture book #mswl to you ("I'm so tired of kindness!"), this tweet from @booktoss does it perfectly. twitter.com/booktoss/statu…Picture books that address big topics of power and social justice for the youngest kids #mswl twitter.com/chidiaqian/sta…
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Graphic novels in the vein of Smile by creators of color. Scripts are welcome, so are author/illustrators! #mswl
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Stories about immigrant communities across the age spectrum #mswl
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Novels with settings that are unfamiliar to American readers
Novels with characters that are unfamiliar with American settings
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Epistolary everything! And anything that plays with format, especially if it feels internetty #mswl
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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
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YA about moving on from high school! Anything about college admissions, the summer after senior year, freshman year of college (or of life) #mswl
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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.
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Dr. Laura M. Jimenez @booktoss
I’ve seen a lot of requests for books about kindness lately. Today I saw a list focused on kindness.where are the lists of picturebooks focused on power, privilege & social justice? kindness feels like someone saying “calm down” when the house is on fire. pic.twitter.com/NzbGzUcTAV
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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)
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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
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Molly O'Neill @molly_oneill
The bravest books about faith IMHO don't demand a certain response or conclusion from their readers, but instead give *the very questions themselves* to teens, then honor/respect the ways in which young people grapple/wrestle/engage with them & make space for answers that emerge.YA about religion and faith is on my permanent #mswl because faith and growing up are both about Big Questions—finding them, answering them (or not), and living anyway.
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Saba Sulaiman @agentsaba
i grew up embracing the term "tomboy" and its related aesthetics because it was the only way i had to express my rejection of traditional gender roles. this fantastic essay is probing, necessary, and calls into question why labels, while divisive, can be empowering as well. #MSWL twitter.com/akkabah/status…oooh if this #mswl comes true, me please!