Dr. Kristin McIlhagga

Teacher Educator. Children's & YA literature scholar. Assistant Professor. Ally. Parent. Partner. Friend. Reader. Posts are my own.

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

@BishopNaomi @sljournal I could not believe that cover when I first saw it! Just tweeted about it myself. So messed up!!!

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

#fail for this cover @sljournal

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

Shame on @sljournal for the February Cover. Honestly, how many people looked at this and approved it before it was selected as the cover. The fact that it is black history month just makes it even worse (which is saying something).

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

Do white children need diverse books? Absolutely. AND conversations about that need to be careful about always centering the white child.

[Social Justice Books @sojustbooks]

Congratulations & happy pub day to @debreese & @JeanMendoza2016 for their adaption for young people of @rdunbaro's AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE US. We can't recommend it highly enough.

https://t.co/WEiVMtGTah

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

@OUSEHS Rich Michelson was inspired to write AS GOOD AS ANYBODY because he wondered the childhoods of Martin Luther King Jr. & Abraham Joshua Heschel. These 2 men who are now revered but were not when they 1st marched together. #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

Rich Michelson is our final author of @OUSEHS Authors' and Illustrators' Craft #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

@OUSEHS "The nice thing about writing fiction is that it is a way to see how things could have turned out differently" - Rich Michelson #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

Learning from Rich Michelson about how his personal journey to learn about Judaism became he first picture book. #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

@LKellerBooks Though @LKellerBooks thinks of her prime audience as 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade students, this classroom full of grad students is laughing at all the puns and humor as well. #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

⁦@LKellerBooks⁩ “My writing process is very messy. Once I accepted that fact, it became easier to embrace the messy and go with it.” #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators

[Dr. Kristin McIlhagga @TeachChildLit]

@LKellerBooks @LKellerBooks "I'm a word nerd. I'm always playing around with words, like writing them backwards to look for other words I might use." #RDG5530 #OUauthorsillustrators