All a-Twitter 2017

love tweetHappy Valentine’s Day! What might characters of children’s and YA lit tweet to their valentines? We’ve got some ideas! See if you can guess who’s tweeting to whom — and feel free to add your own sweet kidlit tweets in the comments.

@ALAYMA17: Who needs February? @March is where it's at.

@Icky: @Ooky iz unk scrivadelly Valentine!

@Yelfred: @Omek Best frints forever

@kid: @cat I don't care how they all see you. You're adorable in my eyes.

@Charlotte: @AndyWhite You're some terrific, radiant, humble Valentine

@Xan: @Luna Forget the stars, I'll give you the moon

@Inquisitor: No question, @3Kids&aDog, you illuminate my life like a dragon fart

@FaithSunderly: @LiarLiar You’re so inTREEguing

@JStep: @JeanMichel You're radiant, child

@FrederickDouglassElementary: @Janitor Black people are magic

@FrederickDouglassElementary: @RealDonaldTrump Here’s who I’m named after

@Tortoise1: @Tortoise2 The hat DOES look good on you!

@Daniel: @Natasha NOW do you believe in fate?

@UnclePaul: @MrMcLeod You’re the Best Man for me

@MildredL: @RLoving, I’d take on the whole world for us to be together

@Nora: @Pablo, I ♫burn, baby, burn♫ for you

 

Read character-to-character love notes from previous years. For more Valentine's Day–related fun, see
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Katie Bircher

Here are the answers! @ALAYMA17: Who needs February? @March is where it’s at. 2017 ALA Youth Media Awards committees to March: Book 3 by Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell, winner of FOUR awards @Icky: @Ooky iz unk scrivadelly Valentine! one bug to another, Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis @Yelfred: @Omek Best frints forever Yelfred to Omek, Best Frints in the Whole Universe by Antoinette Portis @kid: @cat I don’t care how they all see you. You’re adorable in my eyes. kid reader to cat, They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel @Charlotte: @AndyWhite You’re some terrific, radiant, humble Valentine Charlotte A. Cavatica to creator E. B. White, Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet @Xan: @Luna Forget the stars, I’ll give you the moon Wise woman Xan to adopted daughter Luna, The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill @Inquisitor: No question, @3Kids&aDog, you illuminate my life like a dragon fart the Inquisitor to the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz @FaithSunderly: @LiarLiar You’re so inTREEguing Faith to the Lie Tree, The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge @JStep: @JeanMichel You’re radiant, child author/illustrator Javaka Steptoe to artist (and biog subject) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Radiant Child @FrederickDouglassElementary: @Janitor Black people are magic School to Janitor, School's First Day of School by Adam Rex; illus. by Christian Robinson @FrederickDouglassElementary: @RealDonaldTrump Here’s who I’m named after School to POTUS 45, School's First Day of School by Adam Rex; illus. by Christian Robinson @Tortoise1: @Tortoise2 The hat DOES look good on you! one tortoise to another, We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen @Daniel: @Natasha NOW do you believe in fate? Daniel to Natasha, The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon @UnclePaul: @MrMcLeod You’re the Best Man for me Uncle Paul to his fiancé Mr. McLeod, The Best Man by Richard Peck @MildredL: @RLoving, I’d take on the whole world for us to be together Mildred Loving to husband Richard Loving, Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell; illus. by Shadra Strickland @Nora: @Pablo, I ♫burn, baby, burn♫ for you Nora to Pablo, Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

Posted : Feb 14, 2017 07:50


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