Template:Did you know nominations/Bad News for Outlaws


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:19, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Bad News for Outlaws

 * ... that Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of Bad News for Outlaws, asked that Bass Reeves appear unclothed in an illustration to ensure its historical accuracy? Source: "[...] in sketches for Bad News for Outlaws, I noticed in the scene where Bass has to get a steer out of the mud, he was shown outside the mud, pulling the steer with a rope. The real story was that Bass took off all his clothes and got in the mud with the steer, and helped the steer work its way out. The final illustration now reflects this." Interview with Nelson
 * ALT1: ... that a Abby Nolan at The Washington Post wrote that the children's book Bad News for Outlaws about Bass Reeves blended "moral uplift" with "spare but spirited language"?  Source: "Vaunda Micheaux Nelson's picture-book biography seamlessly blends moral uplift (he used his gun only when he was forced to), entertaining anecdotes (he used disguises to catch fleeing criminals), an appealing design (the paper looks like weathered 19th-century parchment) and spare but spirited language." Washington Post
 * Reviewed: Trois chansons (Ravel)
 * Comment: nominating this for Black History month

Created by Cpm18 (talk) and Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Nominated by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) at 22:24, 25 February 2019 (UTC).


 * will do, know already that I'd go for the original --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg fine book, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. Consider: more lead, a bit more detail in the plot, an infobox. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 25 February 2019 (UTC)