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koloudtarapolsi.bsky.social
Aspiring to become America’s first Libyan KidLit author. Rep by Charlotte Wenger. #12x12PB 2024 SILVER Scholarship Winner. #HighlightsFoundation Muslim Storyteller Cohort. Two time #CBA Diversity Scholarship winner. #KweliJournel scholarship recipient.
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I can’t wait to see what adventures will happen this year! #12x12pb

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So excited about this! Have you signed up yet?

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I was told if I want to be a picture book writer, read picture books, so I did! 599 picture books read because I did manage to sneak in one novel. Do you also keep track of books on Goodreads?

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So true! Unfortunately Arab American #KidLit books are missing from American libraries, so I never felt like I belong in a #library because no one looked or talked like me.

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When is an appropriate time to tell visiting guests that your furniture has tails? When they call to make arrangements to visit or when they arrive? #Caturday

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Day 4 without power. We in under red sea but are safe and comfortable. My heart goes out to the folks in the freezing cold, trying to get us unred. No need to panic, libraries are open so I could stop by to grab the 45 #KidLit picture books I need daily to survive.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Visual depiction of me at library looking for Arab #KidLit to read to my 2 year old nephew.

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I wish I had seen this map growing up in Oklahoma, after we had immigrated from Libya. But sadly I never learned Native American history & felt like an idiot in college not knowing the actual history of my adopted home. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Me to realtor, while looking at a potential future home: And what is the cat to human ratio of this neighborhood?

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Read on, kids! Arabic children's literature award announces shortlist #KidLit www.albawaba.com/editorchoice...

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I told my #KidLit librarian I wanted to read books to my preschool kids to celebrate #NativeAmericanHeriageMonth & she gave me these beauties Stolen Words by Melanie Florence & Gabrielle Grimard We all Play by Julie Flett When We are Kind by Monique Gray Smith & Nicole Neidhardt #NAAHM

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So proud of myself that I am at almost 500 picture books read Yes, one or two grown up books might be on the list, but it is 99.99998% #KidLit I never entered a library until I was brought to America, so missed out on reading as a child Now I’m playing catchup to learn how to write them myself

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

One of my absolutely favorite things to do is read to kids as I love watching their faces connect words & pictures DON’T EAT BEES by @devpetty.bsky.social & Mike Boltz is so hilarious & well loved on my library card. This summer I got to meet Mike & get an autograph on my own copy! Yes I swooned

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Don't cha wish you lived closer to me?🎶 Don't cha? Don't cha?🎵🎵 Don't cha wish you could cook with me?🎶 Don't cha? (Ah-ah-ah) Don't cha? #Jordan #Mansaf #BatataMahshi #Fattoush #CookWithAnArab #Seattle

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Don't cha wish you lived closer to me?🎶 Don't cha? Don't cha?🎵🎵 Don't cha wish you could cook with me?🎶 Don't cha? (Ah-ah-ah) Don't cha? #Jordan #Mansaf #BatataMahshi #Fattoush #CookWithAnArab #Seattle

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So excited to book my first school visit for the 2025 April’s Arab American Heritage Month, with my early reader about Arabic words. I’m sad that it is part of a set & schools/parents don’t want to spend $60 per child. Tons of lost #KidLit revenue to the publisher since I am doing an assembly.

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Exciting news: #12x12PB scholarship applications are OPEN! 🍾 We're offering 3 Diversity and 3 Financial Need Scholarships to cover GOLD registration as well as 10 SILVER-member scholarships. Deadline to apply is November 30, 2024! https://buff.ly/3NPnVjY #kidlit #amwriting

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It's #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! Check out these books from our #12x12PB members: 📚 @acraftyarab.bsky.social's book, TALIB'S ARABIC NEIGHBORHOOD 📚 @omarabedwrites.bsky.social's book, THE BOOK THAT ALMOST RHYMED What are some of YOUR favorites?

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