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Becca Syracuse
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Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
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💚HAROLD THE ICEBERG IS NOT A SUPER FOOD💚 is now available wherever your favorite books are sold.
HoooBoy This is an excellent example of "Trust the Process" 😭😂
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Will you be his Valentine?
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
It's EXTREMELY cool to see "Black History is Your History" on The Jennifer Hudson show today! This title was a huge collaborative undertaking (years in the making!), and includes a trove of gorgeous interior portraits by the sensationally talented Adriana Bellet!!!
February 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I could go anywhere with you 🎈☁️

(*Please dispose of your balloons properly! Don't let them fly away, no matter how big their dreams are*)
January 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Today marks my 7th year at Simon and Schuster, and my 10th year in children's publishing!! I'm very emotional!
October 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I've made the executive decision that I don't want to needle felt all the strawberry seeds from the original sketch. What should he be holding instead?? If you had a little mushy familiar, what would he help you carry home after a long day of foraging???
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There's a real chance this is my magnum opus
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Tried my hand at needle felting for the first time, and I am very excited by the potential of it!! There were no coherent instructions included in the kit I ordered so I deviated from the script quite a bit, but I think it turned out super cute anyway!!!! He looks so polite!
September 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Show me your Pink art! 🩷🌸🌷
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Finished another Felt Little Guy!! I think he looks SO POLITE!! Would you give him treats?
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Lots of new people here, so let me reintroduce myself: I'm Becca. I'm an Associate Art Director in Children's Publishing. I use this account to research artists, share my work, and hype up YOUR creative projects! I also love hockey and internet cats. Say hi sometime!
July 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Would you still love me if I was a worm? I'd watch the whole Worm World from the pocket of your shirt.
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
SO happy to share that HAROLD THE ICEBERG MELTS DOWN was named as a Blue Spruce Honor Book at the Forest of r
Reading Festival!!! What an enormous honor! Congratulations to the winners and nominees! I am positively overjoyed to be included on such a spectacular list of creators! 🥗💚♻️
May 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In an effort to beat burnout, I've put away the iPad, and pulled out the Big Drawing Pad™️ and good ol' crayons. I love how much more confident my lines look when the medium is chunky and totally unforgiving!!
May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A VERY special Honorable Mention to this live-action Rainbow Brite Birthday video. I still get the birthday song stuck in my head.
April 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I LOVED Sailor Moon growing up, but seeing "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" first (when I was probably waaaaayyyy too young) is what fundamentally changed my DNA and set the course for the next 30 years of my life.
April 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Ok the lighting in my office is unforgivable but how SWEET did the slime-green spot color turn out on this latest F.T. Lukens jacket?! Another illustrated masterpiece by Sam Schechter 💚✨🔮
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Ten years dungeon
March 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
SO excited to see SATURDAY MORNING AT THE 'SHOP featured on CBS!!! Ken is such a tremendous illustrator and all-around kind soul, and I'm BEYOND grateful to have been a part of the team that made 'Shop. 💈♥️
February 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The best part of being in love is the way your speech will devolve into nonsense sounds, but you'll still understand each other perfectly
February 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just some guys on the move
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I forgot to take better pictures before I gifted it, but here's the Shih Tzu portrait I sewed up for a very dear friend! Finding a tactile way to include her "meat beard" was the best part 😂❤️
December 29, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Here's an in-progress little guy! After years of wrestling with right-handed tutorials, I finally learned how to do a French Knot left-handed! A triumph! Next I'll give him some presents to hold, and maybe boots/a hat. What do you think? 🎁🎅🎄❄️
December 16, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Have yourself a wormy little Wormmas. Let your worms be liiiight.
🪱🎄🎅🎁⭐❄️⛄

I've always loved needlework/plush crafting/hand sewing, but felt has been SUCH a revelation as a medium. I don't know why I didn't try it sooner! Expect more felt experiments in the future!!
December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Stylish but illegal Ikea monkey
November 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM