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Booklandia is an online and traveling bookstore assisting families in building anti-racist and representative libraries of Spanish & Bilingual books.

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@aida_writes ¡Felicidades reina!

[Aida Salazar JOVITA WORE PANTS & CALLING THE MOON @aida_writes]

#Giveaway time! I’ve got a few hardcover copies of #ASeedInTheSun to offer. To enter for a chance to win, like and RT! Winners will be chosen randomly on Fri. 10/21. @penguinkids @GalltZackerLit
#historicalfiction #versenovel #bookgiveaway #middlegradebooks #kidlit #latinxkidlit

[Jamil Jan Kochai @JamilJanKochai]

Let me tell you a story. This is Susan Lung. She taught me to read and write in a single year when I was 7 years old. I've been looking for Susan, hoping to thank her in person, for almost twenty years. And then she surprised me at my reading last night.

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Thank you. Let’s see what happens.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

This afternoon, I convened a meeting with executives from @PenguinRandom to hear from Latino authors, agents, and publishers about the serious ramifications of excluding Latinos from the publishing industry. 🧵

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@lissettejnorman @KiannyNAntigua @HarperChildrens Beautiful! Congratulations! I’m so happy that it is bilingual as well.

[Squidwords Sami Ellis aint here no mo fr fr @themoosef]

I don't know how to phrase this, but all of your "diverse" characters should be based on real people you know in your real life. If the character is not your own identity, you need to come from a place of first hand knowledge (which means no celebrities).

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@hannaalkaf My daughter told me the same joke. It is funny!

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@PomeGBlossom @fivefootsmall MashaAllah! I love this!

[On HIATUS, Buy Black Girl Survives in this One @Sj_Fennell]

Holy SHIRTS! I won the pitch event. 10k in the bag to bring this brick n mortar bookstore to Fordham Road in #thebronx let’s freaking goooooo I definitely teared up! @bronxisreading is doing the thing & it’s thanks to y’all. Yerrrr, We gonna keep changing the narrative let’s. Goo

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@Sj_Fennell @bronxisreading Congratulations!

[David Bowles (has left this place) @DavidOBowles]

BIPOC: "We need more YA written by us that draws from our ancestors' sacred stories or 'myths,' if you will. It's a major hole in publishing."

SARAH UNDERWOOD: "There's just not enough YA about Greek mythology! It's a major hole in publishing!"

:sigh:

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@Phil_Lewis_ How can he just sit and eat after that?

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@happy2bmad @BCassellius @MayorWu This poem is so powerful! It needs to be celebrated and the person who wrote it is an amazing writer.

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@jamarperry @UofMaryland Congratulations Dr. Perry!

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@sofiacoloncpc ¡Gracias! Looking forward to helping you expand your home library.

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@jasminnemendez @FullCircleLit @nanmercado Congratulations! This is wonderful!

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@Sj_Fennell I need this in my life!

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@Venmo @BooklandiaCo & @aida_writes let’s win to donate more books!

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Check out this article and our reading recommendations!

[Brandon Gomez @bgomezreports]

Make some room on your bookshelf and crack open a fresh read this Hispanic Heritage Month. And support your local bookshops - love my friends at @cafeconlibrosbk!

Here are 6 powerful books to read during Hispanic Heritage Month, for yourself and your kids https://t.co/a3v28j20vr

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¡Gracias!

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And a shoutout to the Latinx bookshop owners who submitted these recs - @bronxisreading owner @Sj_Fennell and @BooklandiaCo owner #MaceoCabreraEstevez

Follow the authors: @TaranaBurke, #ElisabetVelasquez, @priscadorcas, @margaritapoet, @jmenendezillu, @poetweatherford