A Declaration in Support of Children

567 thoughts on “A Declaration in Support of Children”

1. Add my name! I love you all.

   1. Please add my name. thank you for the post-election coherence!

2. Please add my name as well. “We who believe in freedom cannot rest.”

3. Please add my name. Ann Eisenstein

4. Please add my name. This is wonderful. Thank you. – Stephanie Ruble

5. I’d like to add my name. Thank you for writing this. <3 -Anika Denise

6. Beautiful! Count me in!

7. I’d be honored to be included on this list of signers. Thank you for this.

8. Please add my name.

9. I’d like my name on this very necessary declaration please! Ibi Zoboi

10. Oh yes! And we will hold each others’ feet to the fire to ensure every manuscript, every illustration, every story bends toward social justice. Please, add my name.

11. I would love to be included. Mark Holtzen

12. Please add my name, too. Thank you for your creativity, talent, and hard work!

13. Please add Zetta Elliot’s amendments. http://www.zettaelliott.com/its-time-to-tell-the-truth/

14. Please add my name — Kell Andrews

15. Thank you for this. Please add my name.

16. Please add Margarita Engle

17. Thank you so much for this! Please add my name: Laurie Halse Anderson.

18. Thank you for this! Please add my name: Katie Bayerl

19. Write on!

20. Please add my name: Gae Polisner

21. Please add my name: Philip Nel.

22. I am honored to stand with you. Sarah Park Dahlen

23. Please add my name. With love, Rebecca Petruck

24. Add me, please!

25. Beautiful! Please add my name. Thank you. -Joyce Wan

26. Thank you for this. Please add my name: Minh Lê

27. Thank you for this. Please add my name

    Megan Dowd Lambert

28. Please add my name. Thanks for the incredible work being done on behalf children, our future, the universe.

29. Please add my name. Brittany J. Thurman

30. Please add my name, Lauren McLaughlin.

31. This is necessary! I would love to add my name.

    Thankful,
    Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy

32. Please add my name, Saranyan Vigraham

33. Please add my name, Saranyan Vigraham

34. Reblogged this on awakenlibrarian and commented:
    Please add my name Eboni Jean Darnell.

35. Please add my name Eboni Jean Darnell

36. I am an illustrator, please add my name, Vincent Desjardins

37. Please add my name, Katrina Damkoehler

38. Can my name be added?

39. Such a timely piece. Please add my name: LaKeshia N. Darden

40. Well said! Please add my name.

41. Well said. Please add my name.

42. Please add me.
    Michelle Cusolito
    FLYING DEEP, Charlesbridge 2018

43. Please add my name. Russ Cox

44. Please add my name.
    Sarah DelGrosso
    Keller TX

45. I’d love to be included! With Thanks, Amy Lee-Tai

46. Please add my name. Thank you!
    Cindy L. Rodriguez

47. Thank you. Please add my name, Tanita S. Davis.

48. Yes, please add me as well. Katie L. Carroll

49. Thank you for this. Please add my name. Catherine Thimmesh.

50. I would absolutely like to add my name to this list. Thank you for reminding us of our goals. – Dow Phumiruk

51. Please add my name as well. I love this community.

52. Please add my name. Thank you for all this!

53. Please add my name–Monica Brown.

54. Yes!

    1. Did you want your name added to our declaration? If so, please reply with your first and last name. Thanks so much for your support.

55. Add mine, too, please and thanks for this!

56. Please add my name: Lisa McMann. Thank you!

57. Please add my name! Jesse Ediger

58. Thank you for this. Please add my name, Kim Baker, as well.

59. Thanks for this declaration. Reading is a superpower!

    Please add me to the list. Mike Hays

60. Please add my name, Jane Kohuth

61. Well said!!! I believe in all of the above and would like to add my name to this list! We need to work even harder than ever to create books that are inclusive, inspire, and promote love and understanding.

62. yes and yes and yes! please add my name!

63. I respectfully request to have my signature added to this beautiful statement.

    Kate Milford

64. Thank you. Please add me.

65. I’m an editor, not a writer or illustrator, but please know that you have my support.

66. Please add my name

67. This part we need to get right! I am in support of all children.

    1. Thanks so much for your support? Did you want your name added to our declaration?

68. My name as well!
    Ready to make more powerful meaningful books!
    Laurenne sala

69. Please add my name.
    (Author of Wolf!, Scholastic, 1999)

70. Please add my name. With love,
    Kate Milford

71. Please add my name.

72. 100% yes! Thank you for this wonderful declaration. Jarrett J. Krosoczka

73. Not only do I write and illustrate picture books for young children, I also taught the Primary grades for almost thirty years. I am in support of all children.

    1. Thanks so much for your comment and support. Did you want your name added to the declaration?

74. Please add Professor Watermelon to the list. I teach and write for children as this character. Thank you so much!

    Chadwick Gillenwater
    “Professor Watermelon”

75. Thank you, yes yes yes, please add my name.

76. Please add my name. In writing I always hope to do our children justice. –Robin Yardi

77. Please add my name as well.

78. Please add my name! Thank you for doing this!

79. Please add my name. Thank you, and thank you for doing this.

80. Please add me as well <3 Emily Wayne

81. Wonderful. Please sign me up. I am in complete support

82. Please add me -thank you for this. Lee Hallison

83. Please add my name as I stand with children as an illustrator/author if Asian descent with multiracial children. I am working on diverse stories. Thank you for this and the article as well.

    Shirley Ng-Benitez

84. Please add my name Vera Lisa Smetzer. ♥

85. Please add Bonnie J. Doerr to this very important declaration.

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87. Please add my name. Thank you! Victoria Lindstrom

88. This is beautiful. Please add my name.

    Marti Dumas, author of the Jaden Toussaint books.

89. It’s a relief to see something like this happening. Please add my name, Celeste Lim. 🙂

90. Please add me. Michael Kress-Russick

91. Reblogged this on Amie's Book Review Blog.

92. Please add my name, Jennifer Thermes. Thank you for this!

93. Please add my name!

94. Please add my name. Mike Grosso

95. Please add my name, Dee Garretson

96. Yes! Please add my name to this declaration.

    Angie Karcher

97. add my name Rita Antoinette Borg

98. Please add my name
    Sandy Brehl
    And thank you.

99. I’m Canadian but would love to sign on! -Bev Katz Rosenbaum

100. please add my name: Anne Mazer

101. Add my name! Larissa Brown Marantz

102. I’d be honored to be added. – Jacqueline West

103. Please do add me too <3 (Dahlia Adler)

104. Please add my name. Teri Sloat

105. Please add my name (Kris Dinnison). I would be honored.

106. I’d be honored to add my name. (Katey Howes)

107. Please add my name. Susanna Reich

108. I pledge my creativity to the betterment of society!

     1. Thanks so much for your support. Did you want your name added to the declaration?

109. Add my name.

110. Reblogged this on Tracey Baptiste and commented:
     “With paintbrushes and pens in hand, we, the undersigned, will continue to press toward the goals of equality, justice, and peace. We will write. We will draw. We will listen to the children. We invite you to join us.”

111. Please add my name. Thanks!

112. Add my name please!

113. Please add my name.
     Thank you!

114. Please add my name: Gary Golio

115. Thanks for this fabulous and important post! Please add my name: Trisha Speed Shaskan

116. Absolutely please add my name! Josh Funk.

117. Reblogged this on Lauren Eldridge.

118. Please add my name!

119. Absolutely please add my name! Josh Funk

120. Add my name, please.

121. Please add my name to this worth cause… …Stella Ormai. …. Paintbrushes in hand we go….

122. Powerful, and so important. Please add my name.

123. Please add my name. Gayle Pitman

124. Yes! Please add my name: Meg Sodano.

125. Add my name, please

126. Please add me, Ruth King Meeker. I’m a reader.

127. Yes, please add my name. I’m proud to sign. Gaia Cornwall.

128. Add my name, please.

     Trace M. Cox

129. I want to sign, of course

130. Reblogged this on a writer's blog by: Tracey M. Cox and commented:
     “With paintbrushes and pens in hand, we, the undersigned, will continue to press toward the goals of equality, justice, and peace. We will write. We will draw. We will listen to the children. We invite you to join us.”

131. I would be honored to add my name to the list, in support of this invaluable mission.

132. This is beautiful, and I would love to be added. Thank you!

133. Please add my name to this important declaration. Sharlee Glenn

134. I’ll sign. Patrice Kindl

135. Please add my name Cathleen Thole-Daniels

136. I would love to pledge my support. Please add my name: Veronica Rossi

137. Add me please. ❤️

     1. Happy to add you. Could you please reply with your first and last name? Thanks so much.

138. I’m happy to add my name, Adam Gustavson, to this letter.

139. Please add my name. Thank you.

140. Reblogged this on Palace of Twelve Pillars Blog and commented:
     Add my name

141. Please add my name Christina Weigand

142. Please add my name: Rita Crayon Huang. Thank you.

     1. Yes. Please add. Caron Levis

143. Thank you, and please add my name. Leslie Bulion

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145. I would love to be added, thank you.

146. Please add my name, thank you!

147. Please add my name: Megan Frazer Blakemore

148. Please add my name: Megan Frazer Blakemore

149. Please add my name, too: Anne Nesbet.
     Thank you!

150. Please add my name: David Bernardy

151. Thank you! Please add my name: John Schumacher.

152. Please add me–Sharon Darrow.

153. I would LOVE to be added. I would be honored. And I will uphold what you promise here.

154. Please add me to the list — I very much support this. Kimberly Pauley

155. Please add me – Judy Palermo

156. Thank you. Please add my name to this powerful message – Lauren Collier Swindler

157. Please add my name to this. This is such important work. Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie.

158. I’d like to sign.

159. I’m in.

160. Thank you so much for this. Please add my name: Annie Silvestro.

161. Count me in! And thank you.

     1. Happy to add you. Could you please reply with your first and last name? Thanks so much.

162. Please add my name — Gerry Renert — and thanks for doing this!

163. Please add me – Mark Scott Ricketts

164. Please add Shauna LaVoy Reynolds. Thank you.

165. Please add my name: Tamisha Finley-Mitchell

166. Thanks for this. Needing all the positivity we can muster right now. Please add me ) Catherine Egan.

167. Thanks for adding me

168. Please add me:
     Karen Romano Young

169. Please add me – Sarah Kettles. Thank you!

170. Beautiful! Please add my name. Thank you, Florence Minor

171. Please add my name. Molly Beth Griffin. And thank you Zetta Elliott for adding the amendment and including our graphic.

172. Please add my name: Wendell Minor

173. Please add my name. With love and a fighting heart -Alexis York Lumbard

174. Please add Elisa Kleven.

175. I’m in!! Heidi Ayarbe

176. I agree. Please add my name.

177. Thank you! Please add my name. Erica Silverman

178. Please add my name.

179. I pledge my name to this, Rorie Still

180. Please add my name. Doreen Cronin

181. Author and Illustrator, Maurie J Manning — enthusiastically requesting to be added.

182. Add my name, please – Dianne Danzig

183. Please add my name to your list – thank you!

184. Yes. Please add my name. Thank you! Curtis Manley

185. Please add my name: Lynn Plourde

186. I’d like to add my name, please.

187. Thank you for this. Please add my name. Rachel Ruiz

188. We promote and sell diverse children’s books at Kitaabworld.com!

189. Please add my name–Monette Pangan. Thank you for this!

190. Please add my name as well, Laura Murray (author)

191. Grateful for this declaration you’ve so beautifully put together. Please add Mae Respicio. Thank you!

192. Please add my name!

193. Please add my name! Thank you ❤️

194. Please count me in. ❤

     1. Apologies: Count me in under my real name, Jennifer Sommersby. I write YA under that name. Thanks.

195. Add my name

196. Add my name Fatima Shaik

197. Please add my name- Stephanie Graegin

198. I would love to be added. Thanks.

199. Thank you for adding the link to the amendment (and for the statement). Please add my name, Innosanto Nagara.

200. Please add my name as well.

201. Please add my name. Thank you. Jan Carr

202. Thank you. Please add my name.

203. Please add my name: Judy Cox

204. Please sign my name to this list

205. Please add my name! Thanks – Erin Soderberg Downing

206. Me too.

     Christopher Silas Neal
     Author, illustrator

207. Thank you for this. Please add my name: Carin Bramsen

208. Please add my name. Thank you

209. Please add my name: Emily L. Harris

210. Please add my name. Nilah Magruder.

211. Thank you for this. With all my heartfelt support, Jolie Stekly

212. Please add my name too, thank you! – Renee Kurilla <3

213. Please add my name. Nilah Magruder.

214. Please count me in. Thank you:-)

215. Absolutely add my name to this list: David Huyck.

     I grew up in an incredibly diverse neighborhood with a lot of friends and extended family from different backgrounds, but I am also a straight, cis, white male. I always strive to see other perspectives, but my lenses will forever be fogged by my own experience. Stories from #ownvoices and from people across the gamut of human experience are crucial and critical to all of us.

     My additional pledge is to continue to meet and talk with and support and encourage creators who are non-white and non-male and otherwise not just like me, and to keep reading books outside of my comfort zone. Truly, it is the least I can do.

216. Please add me: Mary Winn Heider

217. Thank you for adding my name: Maple Lam

218. Yes yes YES! Please add my name!

219. Please add my name. Kate Feiffer. Thank you.

220. I’d be honored if you would add my name to this list.

     1. Please add Kimbra Power, librarian in Shanghai, China.thank you.

221. Add me, please. Ruth McNally Barshaw

222. I would be honored if you would add my name.

     1. Jenna Grodzicki. http://www.jennagrodzicki.com

223. I would like to sign this. Member SCBWI

224. Please add me: Anne Bustard. Thank you!

225. Please add my name to this lovely document. We’re all in this together.

226. Please add my name. Thank you. Stacie Ramey

227. Please add my name: kevan j atteberrry

228. Please add me. Lisa Rusczyk

229. Please add my name! With thanks!

230. Add my name

231. Please add my name!

     1. Could you reply with your name? Thanks.

232. I’m standing up for kids. Please add my name.

233. Add me, please. Susan Vaught

234. Yes! Please add me.

235. Please add my name, and thank you for this.

236. Please add my name Kristen Schwartz. Thank you so much.

237. Please add my name! 💕Ann Haywood Leal

238. I’m not published, but I’d like to add my name please. Susan Rankin-Pollard

239. Please add my name: Debbi Michiko Florence. <3

240. Joyce Shor Johnson

241. Please add my name. This is so important! J. Elizabeth Mills

242. Thank you for this! Please add my name.

243. Please add my name. This is so important!! J. Elizabeth Mills

244. Please add my name: Kathy MacMillan

245. Reblogged this on Kathy MacMillan and commented:
     An important message from the kidlit community:

246. Please add my name.

247. Thank you for stating this so eloquently. Please add my name, Nikki Loftin.

248. Please add my name: Robin Newman

249. Reblogged this on .

250. Please add my name Robin Lowe

251. Please add my name.

     Tammi Sauer

252. Please add my name.

253. Thank you! Please add my name.

254. Please sign my name in Alizarin crimson for addressing children’s hope, fears and needs with uplifting images and words!

255. Yes, please add my name!

256. Please add me. Thank you for doing this.

257. Stacy Gray

258. Please add my name as a children’s book author and illustrator!

259. Please add my name.
     Erin Frankel

260. Wholeheartedly agree. Please add my name, Melissa Iwai, to the list!
     Thank you.

261. Thanks so much for doing this. Please add my name. Jody Feldman

262. Thank you and please add my name: Trisha Leaver

263. Reblogged this on The Hungry Artist and commented:
     No recipe here, but I thought this was important to share!

264. Not yet published as an author/illustrator, but I also work in a public library. Please add my name: Cindy Cornwall

265. Not yet published as an author/illustrator, but I also work in a public library. Please add my name.

266. Please add my name, Deb Johnson…and thank you so much!

267. Saxton Freynann, author and illustrator of How are you Feeling, wants to sign I just don’t know how to forward him the petition. His email is. Sax@eeboo.com. Thanks.

268. Please add my name to this list of declaration for children. Thank you!

269. 🙂 Please add my name: Kristine Lombardi

270. I’d be proud to be added to this list. Wen Baragrey.

271. Please count me in! Annette Simon

272. Please add my name: Patti Kurtz. I’m an aspiring author for teens and I teach YA Lit and children’s lit.

273. Please sign my name: Patti Kurtz, an aspiring author for teens, I also teach YA and children’s lit.

274. Please add my name: Elizabeth Briggs. Thanks.

275. Please add me! Lorian Tu-Dean http://www.paperpencilplay.com (I’m a teacher, a mom, and an illustrator) This is fantastic. Great, great job!

276. Please add my name to the list!! Thank you so much! <3

277. Please add my name. Thank you.

278. Please add my name. Thank you for this!

     1. Could you please respond with your name? Thanks.

279. Please add my name to the list: Lisa Robinson

280. Please add my name:
     Brandon Marie Miller

     Thank you’

281. Reblogged this on Keila V. Dawson and commented:
     For the children. They are our future.

282. Please add my name, too. Cynthia Lord

283. Please add Abby Cooper. Thanks!

284. Please add my name. Thank you.

     1. Can you please respond with your name? Thanks.

285. Please add my name. You wrote a perfect declaration.

286. Please add my name. Thank you for doing this.

287. Co-signed. Thank you for this, and for adding my name.

288. This is beautiful – thank you. I’d be honored if you would add my name. Debbie Reed Fischer

289. Please add me: ***Natalie Hansen Pawlak*** – speaker, writer, play-facilitator.
     I am the Owner/Head of School & Lead Atelierista at Catoctin Sun Nature Preschool in Walkersville, Maryland. I seek out and will continue to provide literary and artistic materials that “empower, affirm, and best represent people of color” and the importance of lives represented on the fringes of our society. Thank you for this call to action! ⭐️️

290. Please add my name. Thank you.
     To more great books for all our children

291. As a YA author and mentor to young writers of many backgrounds, I would also like to add my name. Thank you for expressing this so eloquently. -Kathryn Williams

292. Please add my name … Fiona Robinson

293. I’d be honored to be included. Please add my name.

294. Please add my name. Thank you!

295. Please add my name: Marilyn Hilton

296. Add my name to the list. Cassie Bentley

297. Me too, please!

298. Me too, please!

299. Please add my name. Deborah Heiligman

300. Please add my name to the list. Denise Wilcox

301. Please add my name. Deborah Heiligman

302. Please add my name. I heed the call and stand in agreement with these children’s literary citizens.

303. Well said <3 Thank you for "drawing up" this contract. Tamra Wight

304. Signed, Miranda Paul

305. Please add my name.

306. Please add my name.

307. Yes! Please add my name. And thank you.
     Troy Cummings

308. Please add my name: Barbara Dee

309. Adding my name, and thanks.

     Sarah Hamburg

310. Please add my name: Rebecca Donnelly

311. Please add my name. Thanks for this. Todd Parr

312. Please add my name.

313. I’d be pleased to be added too!

314. Please add Jama Rattigan! Thank you so much.

315. Absolutely! Please add my name, thank you.

316. Yes! Please add my name.

317. Wonderful. Thank you for this. Please add my name, Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu, author of SOMEWHERE AMONG.

318. I’m so in.

319. Please add my name. I stand with you.

320. Please add my name, Roberta Baird

321. Please add my name. With gratitude,
     Denise Alfeld

322. Please add my name. Carella Herberger

323. Please add me, too: Emily Jiang. Thank you!

324. Thank you for this. Please add my name. Sara Nickerson

325. Please, add my name. Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

326. What poweful sentiments. Please add my name!

327. Thank you for this. Please add my name. ❤️

328. Please add my name. Teach love not hate and not discrimination

     1. What is your full name Suzy?

329. I’d love to be added to this wonderful list:
     Edna Cabcabin Moran
     Thanks!

330. I absolutely love this!!
     So many names up there… So many names down here. Please add mine: Diana Toledano

331. Please add my name (MicKenzie Fasteland)

332. “seeds of wisdom and possibility”… yes!
     Please add my name
     Ann Malaspina

333. Reblogged this on margiesmustreads and commented:
     ❤️

334. Add my name please!

335. Please add my name.
     Beth O’Connor
     Thank you!

336. Well said! Please add my name. Thank you! Heather Lang

337. Laura A Woollett

338. Please add me.

339. And me please – Jeffrey Canton

340. Please add my name (with my middle initial as there are two Jennifer Mann’s in kidlit). Thank you.

341. Please add my name to the list. Thank you for supporting all children.

342. Please add my name: Jacque Estill Summers

343. I’d love to be included on the list too. Thank you! Wendy Wahman

344. Please add my name, Kathleen Churchyard author of Bye for Now: A Wisher’s Story

345. linda dalal sawaya

346. Reblogged this on One Moore thing… and commented:
     Like we needed another reason to LOVE children’s book authors and illustrators <3 <3 <3

347. I’m not a writer of children’s books but my 8 and 7 year old boys read voraciously and the quality of the stories and information about ALL KINDS of people – but especially those of African descent – is truly one of the great treasures that we are able to give them. My gratitude to you all is beyond words! It would be an honor to add my name to this list!

348. I would love to add my name to this please– a beautiful and powerful statement. Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs

349. Add me as signed, thanks.

350. Please add my name.

351. I am a children’s book author, and I support children.

352. Please add me. Thank you, and I’m heartened by this long list of names.

353. Add my name, please: Sheila Berenson

354. Please add my name as well. Thank you, Jesse Klausmeier

355. Please add my name: Claire Wrenn Bobrow
     Thank you!

356. Please add me, Emma Otheguy

357. Absolutely right! Please add my name!

358. Add my name, Nancy Bo Flood

359. Me, too. Anne Sibley O’Brien

360. Please add me: Beth Fehlbaum
     “Hope is the opposite of fear.”

361. Please add my name. Thanks!

362. Thanks for the beautiful statement. Please add my name.
     Liza Ketchum

363. Please add my name. Thank you for doing this.
     Denise Dowling Mortensen

364. Please add: Dr. Winmilawe

365. Please add my name.Thank you , always in peace and with respect promoting values for the next generations. Agatha Rodi

366. Me too! Thank you for this.

367. Please add my name:
     Pamela Zagarenski
     Thank you and peace

368. Ellen Krupa

369. Please add my name. Peace.

370. Libba Bray

371. Add my name please:
     Ginger Wadsworth

372. I want to sign this, please. Love to all of you.

373. Please add my name

374. I’d be honored if you’d add my name. Thanks for this idea!

375. I am emphatically declaring my support for children!
     Renee Frances
     Author, Good Night Fairy book series
     http://www.goodnightfairy.ca

376. Add my name to the list
     Xavier Garza

377. Very well written, please add my name as well.

378. Please add my name to the list. Thank you!

     Traci Sorell

379. Very well written. Please add my name as well.
     Kathy Frye

380. Please add my name and thank you.

381. This is beautiful. I would be honored if you added my name.

382. Would love to have my name added, please

383. Please add my name! Chris Robertson

384. Please add my name.

385. We all have the chance to make our work truly meaningful in the ways described above. Thank you for offering this. Please add my name: Diane Magras.

386. Please add my name

387. Add my name as well. Thank you. Beth Black

388. Yes please! Add my name. Thank you!

389. Please add my name too!

390. Please add my name Chérie Stihler. THANK YOU

391. Thank you for this. I would be honored to be added.

     1. What is your full name, Kristin?

392. Please add my name. Thank you.

     1. Thanks so much for your support. Happy to add you on. What’s your first and last name?

393. I love this! Thank you.

394. Please add me.

395. Please add my name — thank you! Diane Zahler

396. Please add my name as well.

397. This is fantastic! Thank you, and please add my name. Kellye Crocker

398. Paulette Duggins

399. Thank you for doing this. Please add me.
     Erin Dionne

400. Thank you for reopening the list! I believe wholeheartedly in sharing and promoting books that reflect children of all backgrounds. Please add my name to your list. My pen is poised in solidarity.
     All the best,
     Amber Nieves, Story Crafter

401. Please add my name

402. Add my name, please.

403. YES!! Well said. Scrolling through this growing list makes me feel encouraged. Please add my name: Nancy Tandon

404. please add my name

405. Thank you for re-opening! Please add my name. Courtney Pippin-Mathur. ❤️

406. Thanks you, please sign me up. Christy Stallop

407. Thank you for re-opening the link. Please add my name. Courtney Pippin-Mathur

408. please add my name in ink —

409. Thanks for this, and I’d be honored if you’d add my name to the list. With love, Liz Garton Scanlon

410. Please add my name. Thank you so much. Monique Fields

411. May this journey lead to brighter futures. Please add my name.
     Susan Kleinsasser

412. Please add my name. Love trumps hate.

413. Please add my name. This is a beautiful thing.

414. Thanks so much for doing this! I’d love to add my name.

     – Lynne Kelly

415. Count me in! This is a beautiful thing.

416. Please add me: Michelle Lord

417. Please add my name Meghan Daniels.

418. Please add me in as a long time illustrator of diverse books and an enthusiastic backer. Elizabeth Allen

419. Please add me. Carole Lindstrom

420. Carole Lindstrom. What a great idea!!!

421. Thank you for doing this! Please add our author and illustration team on http://www.promisedland-book.com as a reference point:

     Chaz Harris
     Adam Reynolds
     Christine Luiten
     Bo Moore

422. Please include me in this important declaration!

     Dorina Lazo Gilmore

423. Count me in too! The world needs love and understanding. Traci Van Wagoner

424. Please add my name as well! Hannah Barnaby

425. Thank you! Please add my name! shared.

426. So important. As a writer of books for young readers, and as a mother of multiracial children, I stand with you. I’d be honored to be added — Christine Peymani

427. I’d like to stand with you. Grateful if you’d add my name! Brian Lies

428. Please add my name. Thank you!

429. Absolutely! Pls add my name: Arlene Robillard

430. I would be honored to have my name included and stand behind all of you and the beautiful things you are doing. The more we surround children with positive and hopeful things, the better our future generations will be. All the best, Taryn Rabin

431. I’m in. Thank you!

432. Please add my name.

433. Thank you, both for the initial post and for allowing additional names to be added. Please add my name.
     –Diane Foote

434. Such a great declaration.

     1. Hi Marya, Thanks for your support. Did you want to add your name?

435. As a novelist and advice columnist, I’m proud to have my name here. Thank you! Carol Weston

436. Please add my name. Thank you so much!
     Julie Williams

437. Please add my name to the list–with the addition that this list itself proves that bigotry, though deeply rooted in our culture, is not entrenched!

     1. Hi Tim, Thanks so much for your support. Would you like your name signed to the declaration as it stands? We’re just listing names and wouldn’t be able to include your comment. That would be visible here of course. Or would you feel more comfortable only having your name and statement in the comments?

438. I’d love to be added to this list as I strongly agree!
     Ed Shems (edfredned)

     Thank you!

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440. I would like to add my name: Kim Culbertson

441. Please add my name: Kate Elliott

442. Please add my name: Charlie Eve Ryan
     illustrator/writer

443. Please add me: Charlie Eve Ryan
     Thank you

444. Please add my name: JoAnn Early Macken. Thank you!

445. Hello! Please, add my name: Ana Crespo

446. Please add my name. Sheila Sweeny Higginson.

447. The power of literature may be one way to save the children from a life of marginalization

     Add me to the list please

448. Please add me. And thank you for doing this.

449. Thank you for this! Please add my name, Lisa Ann Sandell.

450. I am prepublished, but this is my mission! Please add Lindsay Hanson Metcalf.

451. Please add my name! Thank you!!

452. Please add my name. I’m proud to stand beside you.

453. Please add my name. Julia Collard. Thank you.

454. Please add me as well! Thank you and thanks for creating this!

455. Please add my name! Thank you!
     Elizabeth Brown

456. Please add me to the list! Thank you!

457. Amanda Hosch

     Please add me. Thank you very much.

458. Please add me to the list! Thank you!

459. Please add my name. Thank you!

460. Thank you for doing this. I’d love to be added. -Diandra Mae

461. Yes, please add my name! Thank you!

462. And please add me!

463. Please add my name: Kate Schatz.

464. Thank you, and please add me!

465. Please add my name: Crystal L. Roget

466. please add mine – thanks

467. Yes! Please add my name: Crystal L. Roget

468. Please add my name. Thank you!
     -Megan Maynor

469. Signed:

     Mo WILLEMS

470. Yes, please add my name. Thank you!
     -Megan Maynor

471. I’d be honored if my name was included. Thank you.

472. As a librarian, I would like to add my name: Nancy Silverrod, San Francisco Public Library.

473. Please add me. Annette Curtis Klause.

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476. Please add my name.

477. Please add my name: Nina Victor Crittenden. Thank you!

478. Please add my name to this soul-right effort.

479. This is amazing!! I am with you all!

     Samantha Smith

480. Please add my name: Cheryl Blackford

481. Please add my name: Holly Thompson

482. Proud to add my name alongside my wonderful illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton! THE GIRL WHO HEARD COLORS

483. Please add my name: Lori Degman Thanks!!

484. Please add my name to the list. Timothy Young

485. Please please please add my name too: Marcus Ewert
     #Resist&Create

486. Please add my name!

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488. Please add my name. Thank you so much!

489. Please add my name John Shelley

490. I understand you are opening it to agents. I am honored to sign.

491. Please add my name: Laurie Calkhiven

492. Please add me: Heidi Schulz

493. Add my name: Abi Cushman

494. Whoops – typo in my previous entry – it should read: Cathy Camper and Raul III Author and Illustrator of Lowriders in Space and Lowriders to the Center of the Earth – thank you!

495. Add my name please, Barb Rosenstock

496. These writers and illustrators are heroes!

     Please add my name!

497. Maybe I’m too late – but if not (not sure ith the time difference…), please add my name too – Marjorie Coughlan xxx

498. I support this declaration and wish to add my name to it. Deborah Halverson

499. Please add my name: Angela Matteson
     Thank you!

500. Please add my name: Liz Wong

501. I support this wholeheartedly! Crystal Perkins

502. Please add my name- Mary Jane Begin

503. I would be proud to have my name added to this list: Shannon Delany. Thank you! <3

504. Please add my name. Thank you for this!

505. Please add my name, Gabrielle Prendergast

506. Please add my name and THANK YOU!
     Nanci Turner Steveson

507. Count me in!
     Leslie Helakoski

508. Please add my name.

509. I support this declaration. Please add my name (if it is not too late!) Thank you!

510. Please add my name! And thank you so much for putting this together! ❤️️ Jessica Freeburg

511. I hope it’s not to late to add my name! I love this so much! Thank you for doing this! This is truly beautiful!

     ❤️ Jessica Freeburg

512. Please add my name: Henry Herz

513. Thank you all ! Please add my name: Gigi Amateau

514. Please add my name, Emma Lesko. Thank you for uniting so many through this powerful declaration.

515. Yes please!

516. Please add my name.

517. Reblogged this on Jama's Alphabet Soup and commented:
     Happy to sign this pledge.

     1. Please add my name if you reopen this (I think I missed the deadline again!) Willow Dawson, author/illustrator, graphic novels and picture books.

518. Thank you for this! Please add Melissa Wiley to the list.

519. Please add my name: Claire Annette Noland

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521. Please add my name. Love this kidlit community. Kim Purcell

522. Yep. Please add: John Parra

523. Lonna Hardin

524. Thank you for this wonderful letter. Please add me if it’s not too late! -Alex Gino

525. Please add Diane Mayr to those who support the pledge. Many thanks.

526. Beautifully said. Thanks so much for speaking out.

527. Please add my name. Jo Lena Johnson

528. Please add my name: Cathryn Falwell

529. Wonderful declaration! Please add my name as well: Corina St. Martin

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