Laurel Snyder
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Laurel Snyder
@laurelsnyder.bsky.social
· Nov 16
CHARLIE AND MOUSE GET STUCK
(IN NOVEMBER 2024)
Illustration: Emily Hughes
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“Mouse!” called Charlie. “Where are you?”
“I am here!” Mouse called back. “I am in the dog bed. And I am STUCK.”
Charlie found Mouse.
“You cannot be STUCK,” said Charlie. “It is time to set the table for dinner.”
(IN NOVEMBER 2024)
Illustration: Emily Hughes
**
“Mouse!” called Charlie. “Where are you?”
“I am here!” Mouse called back. “I am in the dog bed. And I am STUCK.”
Charlie found Mouse.
“You cannot be STUCK,” said Charlie. “It is time to set the table for dinner.”
ICYMI: Charlie & Mouse & the Creeping Hand of Fascism!
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
“Seemingly pint-size worries—spiders, night sounds—make a child literally shrink” in Laurel Snyder and illustrator LeUyen Pham’s “polished” picture book SHRINKING VIOLET
Shrinking Violet by Laurel Snyder
Seemingly pint-size worries—spiders, night sounds—make a child literally shrink in this polished picture book from Snyder (The B...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Seemingly pint-size worries—spiders, night sounds—make a child literally shrink” in Laurel Snyder and illustrator LeUyen Pham’s “polished” picture book SHRINKING VIOLET
What am I supposed to do if nobody shows up for a telehealth appointment? Will I be charged for cancelling if I close this window? Is there anything about health care that isn't broken in 2026? Do better, Emory.
January 2, 2026 at 4:28 PM
What am I supposed to do if nobody shows up for a telehealth appointment? Will I be charged for cancelling if I close this window? Is there anything about health care that isn't broken in 2026? Do better, Emory.
I only have one book coming out this year, a picture book with the impossibly talented LeUyen Pham.
You can scroll through the whole thing right here...
Go on, take a peek!
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
You can scroll through the whole thing right here...
Go on, take a peek!
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
Shrinking Violet
online.flippingbook.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:25 AM
I only have one book coming out this year, a picture book with the impossibly talented LeUyen Pham.
You can scroll through the whole thing right here...
Go on, take a peek!
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
You can scroll through the whole thing right here...
Go on, take a peek!
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
Informal poll for booksellers/ librarians/ Kidlit bloggers:
Do you feel you respond differently to picture books with a hard copy F&G? How likely are you to engage fully with a digital copy of a picture book?
Do you feel you respond differently to picture books with a hard copy F&G? How likely are you to engage fully with a digital copy of a picture book?
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Informal poll for booksellers/ librarians/ Kidlit bloggers:
Do you feel you respond differently to picture books with a hard copy F&G? How likely are you to engage fully with a digital copy of a picture book?
Do you feel you respond differently to picture books with a hard copy F&G? How likely are you to engage fully with a digital copy of a picture book?
Informal poll for picture book creators!
Have your recent books gotten a hard copy F&G? If not, do you feel people generally interacted the same way with the digital version/PDF?
Have your recent books gotten a hard copy F&G? If not, do you feel people generally interacted the same way with the digital version/PDF?
January 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Informal poll for picture book creators!
Have your recent books gotten a hard copy F&G? If not, do you feel people generally interacted the same way with the digital version/PDF?
Have your recent books gotten a hard copy F&G? If not, do you feel people generally interacted the same way with the digital version/PDF?
Author friends: what NY bookstore does an especially good job of setting up school visits?
December 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Author friends: what NY bookstore does an especially good job of setting up school visits?
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
Holiday PB Countdown: The Book of Candles: Eight Poems of Hanukkah, @laurelsnyder.bsky.social Leanne Hatch, Clarion Books #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #Hanukkah #winter. 📚
December 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Holiday PB Countdown: The Book of Candles: Eight Poems of Hanukkah, @laurelsnyder.bsky.social Leanne Hatch, Clarion Books #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #Hanukkah #winter. 📚
Share your light.
And have some of mine…
And have some of mine…
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Share your light.
And have some of mine…
And have some of mine…
It’s been over a decade since the morning shows stopped having the Newbery/Caldecott winners on, the day after the announcement. Remember how exciting that always was? (1/3)
#alayma #newbery #caldecott #kidlit
#alayma #newbery #caldecott #kidlit
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It’s been over a decade since the morning shows stopped having the Newbery/Caldecott winners on, the day after the announcement. Remember how exciting that always was? (1/3)
#alayma #newbery #caldecott #kidlit
#alayma #newbery #caldecott #kidlit
What a crazy wonderful Hanukkah miracle. Thank you, @kellyclarksontv.bsky.social!!
Still pinching myself!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4G...
Still pinching myself!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4G...
Kelly Clarkson Celebrates Hanukkah With 'The Book of Candles' Author Laurel Snyder
YouTube video by The Kelly Clarkson Show
m.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What a crazy wonderful Hanukkah miracle. Thank you, @kellyclarksontv.bsky.social!!
Still pinching myself!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4G...
Still pinching myself!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4G...
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2
Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’
For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
Are you in Mesa County, Colorado? Your public library board is about to be overtaken with extremists.
Get to the board meeting TOMORROW to speak up and out about what's going to come if these two get appointed.
annelandmanblog.com/2025/12/maga...
Get to the board meeting TOMORROW to speak up and out about what's going to come if these two get appointed.
annelandmanblog.com/2025/12/maga...
MAGA book burners target Mesa County Public Library system and a call to action! – AnneLandmanBlog
annelandmanblog.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Are you in Mesa County, Colorado? Your public library board is about to be overtaken with extremists.
Get to the board meeting TOMORROW to speak up and out about what's going to come if these two get appointed.
annelandmanblog.com/2025/12/maga...
Get to the board meeting TOMORROW to speak up and out about what's going to come if these two get appointed.
annelandmanblog.com/2025/12/maga...
Let’s go!
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Let’s go!
Light to *everyone* tonight.
All the light.
A little more each day!
All the light.
A little more each day!
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Light to *everyone* tonight.
All the light.
A little more each day!
All the light.
A little more each day!
It was a difficult morning to get up and do a #Hanukkah storytime. But I was so glad to be there. Stories and light and community are so healing, perhaps most of all when the instinct is to isolate and hide. Thanks to The Book Bird for creating that space!
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It was a difficult morning to get up and do a #Hanukkah storytime. But I was so glad to be there. Stories and light and community are so healing, perhaps most of all when the instinct is to isolate and hide. Thanks to The Book Bird for creating that space!
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
We live in a country where moments ago a national cable television news channel interviewed two survivors of tonight's mass shooting at Brown University who had both survived mass shooings at SEPARATE HIGH SCHOOLS before this experience.
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We live in a country where moments ago a national cable television news channel interviewed two survivors of tonight's mass shooting at Brown University who had both survived mass shooings at SEPARATE HIGH SCHOOLS before this experience.
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
And yet in RFK Jr’s recent MAHA report, published by the White House, called “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” there was not a single mention of guns
Not one mention of the top cause of child death in America
It’s almost as if they don’t actually want to do anything to improve children‘s lives
Not one mention of the top cause of child death in America
It’s almost as if they don’t actually want to do anything to improve children‘s lives
Gun violence is the number-one cause of death for children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed
Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
And yet in RFK Jr’s recent MAHA report, published by the White House, called “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” there was not a single mention of guns
Not one mention of the top cause of child death in America
It’s almost as if they don’t actually want to do anything to improve children‘s lives
Not one mention of the top cause of child death in America
It’s almost as if they don’t actually want to do anything to improve children‘s lives
I newslettered! Why is that always so hard, to make a monthly newsletter? Why is it harder for me than other kinds of writing?
Does anybody else struggle with this?
laurelsnyder.substack.com/p/the-year-i...
Does anybody else struggle with this?
laurelsnyder.substack.com/p/the-year-i...
December 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I newslettered! Why is that always so hard, to make a monthly newsletter? Why is it harder for me than other kinds of writing?
Does anybody else struggle with this?
laurelsnyder.substack.com/p/the-year-i...
Does anybody else struggle with this?
laurelsnyder.substack.com/p/the-year-i...
I can’t believe it’s true, but if you turn on Kelly Clarkson on Monday, you might see little ol’ me!
(FYI it’s just two minutes at the very end!)
(FYI it’s just two minutes at the very end!)
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I can’t believe it’s true, but if you turn on Kelly Clarkson on Monday, you might see little ol’ me!
(FYI it’s just two minutes at the very end!)
(FYI it’s just two minutes at the very end!)
Thank you so much, @thehornbook.bsky.social !
Day 15 of #25DaysofHolidayBooks: THE BOOK OF CANDLES: EIGHT POEMS FOR HANUKKAH by @laurelsnyder.bsky.social + Leanne Hatch ( @clarionbooks.bsky.social / @harperkids.bsky.social ) www.hbook.com/story/review... #HolidayHighNotes #HornBookHolidays #holidaybooks #giftaday #bookaday #kidlit #hannukah
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thank you so much, @thehornbook.bsky.social !
Have you thought about making a donation to Gaza as a holiday gift this year? For Hanukkah, I’m donating to Gaza Soup Kitchen and you can too!
www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...
www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do.
My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Have you thought about making a donation to Gaza as a holiday gift this year? For Hanukkah, I’m donating to Gaza Soup Kitchen and you can too!
www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...
www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...
Reposted by Laurel Snyder
I made a long-form comic book! It’s a romance! Teens fall in love! Hijinks! Transmasc non-binary love interest! Mother-daughter bonding! Idyllic wintry vibes! Five starred reviews from trade publications! bookshop.org/p/books/ange...
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I made a long-form comic book! It’s a romance! Teens fall in love! Hijinks! Transmasc non-binary love interest! Mother-daughter bonding! Idyllic wintry vibes! Five starred reviews from trade publications! bookshop.org/p/books/ange...