Template:Did you know nominations/Jason Reynolds


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:40, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Jason Reynolds

 * ... that National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah to begin writing poetry when he was nine years old? Source 1: "Life, for nine-year-old Jason Reynolds, was solved: he was going to be the next Queen Latifah. No matter that the other kids in his neighborhood swore allegiance to one of the three Michaels (Jordan, Jackson, or Tyson). Reynolds was going to be Latifah, and so he began writing poetry every day." Publisher's Weekly Source 2: "His new novel, “Ghost,” has been nominated for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature." Washington Post
 * Reviewed: Yao Xian (general)
 * Comment: He's written a lot of books and they aren't all fully covered in the entry as yet, but what's there is now well-sourced and I'll continue expanding.

5x expanded by Innisfree987 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:16, 1 April 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg 7307 characters, expanded 5x, new enough. No apparent copyvios. Overlapping text was a quote and is cited correctly. Written neutrally. Sources appear reliable. Hook is short enough with inline citations, as noted. QPQ is done. Good to go. SojoQ (talk) 10:12, 17 April 2018 (UTC)