Hannah Salyer
LightNews LightNews
banner
hsalyer.bsky.social
Hannah Salyer
@hsalyer.bsky.social
66 followers 70 following 18 posts
Slow makings and musings of the illustration, sculpture, and storytelling variety.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
meanwhileplaces.bsky.social
A walk in the park.
July 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
gianferrari-m.bsky.social
My bound copy of Rain & the Reading Horse has arrived!!

So beautiful, @hsalyer.bsky.social!!

@clarionbooks.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
gianferrari-m.bsky.social
Happy National #ilovehorses day!!

And thanks, #publishersweekly for the starred review!

tinyurl.com/mr392a7b

Stunning & heartfelt art by @hsalyer.bsky.social

From @clarionbooks.bsky.social

#horses
#horsepoweredreading
#therapyhorses
#equinetherapy
#kidlit
#horsebooksforkids
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
gianferrari-m.bsky.social
Thanks, #juniorlibraryguild & #Kirkus!

You can pre-order 🐎Rain & the Reading Horse, with gorgeous art by @hsalyer.bsky.social at @bookshop.org

Anti-prime sale until 7/11!

bookshop.org/p/books/rain...

@clarionbooks.bsky.social
@harperkids.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
kylelukoff.bsky.social
Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...
South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display
The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.
roughdraftatlanta.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
gianferrari-m.bsky.social
Close up
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
kslivensky.bsky.social
In OTHER book news...

Thank you, @bankstreet.edu, for including THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT on your Best Books list for 2025! What an incredible, amazing honor. ❤️🐺

The list: educate.bankstreet.edu/cgi/viewcont...

This Wolf Was Different: www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-W...

#KidLit
Graphic showing the cover of The Best Children's Books of the Year 2025 Edition from the Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education. Also showing the cover of THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT, a children's book written by Katie Slivensky and illustrated by Hannah Salyer. The cover depicts a close up of a wolf's face with a human reflected in her eyes. Text of the graphic reads: Congratulations, This Wolf Was Different, on making Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year List, 2025! From Beach Lane Books. More info: www.KatieSlivensky.com.
June 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
hsalyer.bsky.social
Rest easy little friend 💫 thanks for helping make this place beautiful
Dead bumble bee enshrined in a flower circle
May 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
hsalyer.bsky.social
My birthday falls on the Worm Moon this year. Which is also pi day, and Purim. Prepping accordingly 🪱
March 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
kslivensky.bsky.social
It's THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT's first anniversary! What a YEAR! A French edition, an audiobook, getting on the NYPL's Best Books for Kids 2024 list, and now a third printing... I'm heartwarmed so many have welcomed me and @hsalyer.bsky.social's little wolf into their lives.

Thank you. 🥹❤️

#KidLit
A graphic with the cover of picture book THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT, written by Katie Slivensky and illustrated by Hannah Salyer, of a close up wolf face with a person reflected in her eyes. The rest of the graphic reads: Happy One Year Anniversary to THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT! New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2024. Now in its third printing! Available anywhere books are sold." There is an image along the top of the graphic of a wolf pup looking at a butterfly while other wolf pups play in a meadow, which is art from the book, done by Hannah Salyer.
March 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
kslivensky.bsky.social
I realize I share the cover a lot, but you all are missing out on @hsalyer.bsky.social's amazingly gorgeous art INSIDE the book, if you haven't checked it out yet. 💙 #KidLit
A spread from THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT by Katie Slivensky and illustrated by Hannah Salyer. The scene is night. A wolf pack sleeps, save for one who is awake looking at the stars. In the sky, an ethereal wolf image floats by. The page text reads, "And each night, she would think to herself: I wish I was more like them. I wish I was like a real wolf."
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
georgetakei.bsky.social
A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
gianferrari-m.bsky.social
Happy #worldhorseday & #nationalhorseprotectionday

A sneak peek of @hsalyer.bsky.social's stunning art for RAIN & THE READING HORSE!

Coming 10/7 from @clarionbooks.bsky.social & @harperkids.bsky.social

Horse lovers pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/rain...

#horsepoweredreading
#therapyhorses
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
hsalyer.bsky.social
This book is very close to my heart ❤️ can’t wait to share it will everyone on October 7th!
gianferrari-m.bsky.social Maria Gianferrari (she/her) @gianferrari-m.bsky.social · Feb 14
Calling all #horselovers!

Cover reveal for RAIN AND THE READING HORSE!

Gorgeous art by @hsalyer.bsky.social!

Coming Oct. 7th from @clarionbooks.bsky.social & @harperkids.bsky.social

Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/rain...
February 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
gianferrari-m.bsky.social
Calling all #horselovers!

Cover reveal for RAIN AND THE READING HORSE!

Gorgeous art by @hsalyer.bsky.social!

Coming Oct. 7th from @clarionbooks.bsky.social & @harperkids.bsky.social

Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/rain...
February 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
smithsmm.bsky.social
Love this from #MacBarnett
February 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
kslivensky.bsky.social
I've received news of an amazing honor. Oradell Public School in NJ has their own picture book awards, and THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT was selected for not one, but two! "Best Illustration" (woo @hsalyer.bsky.social!) and "Best Message". ❤️

Yes, I *will* be printing these stickers out for my own copy! 😃
The cover of THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT by Katie Slivensky and illustrated by Hannah Salyer, with two student-drawn award stickers stuck onto it for Best Illustration and Best Message.
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
hsalyer.bsky.social
Fiddle leaf fig (who I feared had died as a result of the drought in the fall) gave us the best surprise this morning. Hello little one 🌱
February 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
hsalyer.bsky.social
My mom recently sent me some Arthur Geisert books that I coveted as a kid and it’s been such a treat to enter his world again. Images from “Pigs A to Z”— one of the more brilliant alphabet books out there IMO
Pigs climb on a roof to form the letter “A”, the first page of Arthur Geisert’s “Pigs A to Z”.
January 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reposted by Hannah Salyer
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:
ynicism is first of all a style of presenting oneself, and it takes pride more than anything in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both these things. That the attitude that prides itself on world-weary experience is often so naïve says much about the triumph of style over substance, attitude over analysis. Maybe it also says something about the tendency to oversimplify. If simplification means reducing things to their essentials, oversimplification tosses aside the essential as well. It is a relentless pursuit of certainty and clarity in a world that generally offers neither, a desire to shove nuances and complexities into clear-cut binaries. Naïve cynicism concerns me because it flattens out the past and the future, and because it reduces the motivation to participate in public life, public discourse, and even intelligent conversation that distinguishes shades of gray, ambiguities and ambivalences, uncertainties, unknowns, and opportunities. Instead, we conduct our conversations like wars, and the heavy artillery of grim confidence is the weapon many reach for.
January 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
hsalyer.bsky.social
Peaceful dispatch from deadline zone:
January 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
hsalyer.bsky.social
Have announced next to nothing about this yet, but I’m going to have a bunch of ceramic sculptures in a group gallery show in AZ this spring. Feels like a good time and space to put this up*

- More details soon -
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM