Cheryl B. Klein

Hello, new followers! I'm a children's book editor with 24 years in the business & author of THE MAGIC WORDS: WRITING GREAT BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS and five picture books. I post about books, writing craft, politics, publishing, NYC, my 5-year-old son, & things that make me laugh.

Via @shelf-awareness.com, I'm envious of the author who receives the prize for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction: "a jeroboam and a case of Bollinger Special Cuvée, the complete set of the Everyman's Library P.G. Wodehouse collection, and a pig named after their winning book."

* “MY DECISION—“ * “I have no cards left to play.” * “We’re falling short.” * “Pretty pretty pretty please?” * “Is there ANYTHING I can say….” * “I hate to ask” -> asks * “[Politician name] STUNS” What other manipulative text openings am I forgetting?

Nearly twice as many New Yorkers cast their ballots on the first two days of early voting as compared with four years ago. New York understands the assignment.

**A Note by Kyle Lukoff** The Ashford School District in Connecticut recently informed Newbery Honor-winning children’s book author @kylelukoff.bsky.social he would not be permitted to visit with their students. Our silence makes us complicit. theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/banned-by-...

Check out how easy this is.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Children’s books and YA literature. The quality has always been there, but the diversity of voices & styles & subjects available now is extraordinary.

The 7yo is participating in the time-honored tradition of drawing his favorite superheroes on the back of his school papers. And getting pretty good!

This is why JD Vance follows his attacks on Acton by calling her a drunk. The inference is that all child rape victims are drunk, drugged up adults who should be ignored.

I'd love for Congress to look at these situations where you buy a basic economy plane ticket and if changes are necessary, you get only a partial travel credit back. How is that legal -- to not get the full value of what you paid for in some form?

Edward Ruscha, OOF, 1962 (reworked 1963) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135163

I always think that Marguerite (1907) by Henri Matisse looks like an underground/indie comic book published by Fantagraphics in the 1990s.

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

Quote/thought for the day via Shelf Awareness: "What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?" -- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

For this week’s @nymag.com, I profiled Lance Oppenheim! We went deep on the making of You Can See Everything—how a certain actress got involved, how the shower scene happened, and how embedding with Elizabeth Holmes forced him to find a new way of working. Gift link: www.vulture.com/article/lanc...

Another older Halloween comic. I lost the old file so I recently had to redraw it, and I had a lot of fun revisiting this.

The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

Their politics are all different, but the appeal of Mamdani, Ossoff, and El-Sayed as speakers and campaigners is that they don't seem afraid they're going to get in trouble. That makes them hard to bully or even make fun of successfully.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

I’m in a Brooklyn thrift store playing Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” in full and I love hearing other shoppers likewise humming or singing softly along. (Who can resist?)

Really interesting short thread

I would form a company to create beautiful & strange art in the ad spaces on the MTA. I’d wrap a bus in a painting, put a whole short story in the overhead blocks on a subway car, hide a mystery in codes embedded in station art, run micro-films on the digital screens everywhere.

What kind of country allows for this?

There’s a reason It’s Called “No Kings,” not “No King.” No Kings is about more than just Donald Trump, it’s about fighting against the billionaire class & the corporate mega-donors who’ll still have power after he’s gone. We’re going up against them THIS SATURDAY, 10/17: No Kings: Vote Early!

The short version of this is: the stupidity machine stole the books, then used the stupidity machine to build a stupid machine that cannot be fixed no matter what you do to pay out the 1.5 billion they have to may for all they stealing. Which sounds like a lot until you realize it's SO MANY BOOKS.

Yup. The Niemoller poem is self-executing. They have no solutions, only blame, and the problems persist so the blame must continue no matter what they accomplish.

Public libraries are becoming so popular even the bears have started trying to get cards. www.instagram.com/reel/DeftV9x...

The Sound of Music for Tax Purposes (it’s very boring music)

I donate blood every two months or so, & the receptionist at Brooklyn’s NY Blood Center not only remembers me but asks if I did my pre-donation ritual (getting a burger at the BK around the corner). Being “known” in even this little way is so nice! It’s one of the things that keeps me coming back.

Only in New York: On Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue, an actual Mario Kart driven by a man in a Mario costume!

The mundane sadness of the online trivia player: I wrote one answer, second-guessed myself, and then put in another answer; and the correct answer was, indeed, my first one. Thank you for your sympathies at this difficult time.

Helene Appel- Sink (with dishes), 2024.

3 wks out from midterms and it's a reminder the political system of months/years-long campaigning is exhausting. We don't need so much time to dump so much money into trying to convince citizens through deceitful ads a candidate eats babies when the most corrupt people are already running the gov

How long can I keep this up? Not sure, but all I want is for the London production of My Neighbor Totoro to transfer to Broadway. Let me ask you, is that really so much to ask..?

"From time to time I take books I can’t stand or from authors I want to annoy and make: sausages c. 40 cm long, 8 cm thick"

One nice thing about working in Midtown: I can literally get a salad and tour a cool art collection in the same building on my lunch break. (This is in the UBS building on 51st St. — and so is a Chopt!)

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms