Laurel Snyder
@laurelsnyder.bsky.social
Three nights!! I did wake up at 4 am, but just read my book and then fell back to sleep.
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Three nights!! I did wake up at 4 am, but just read my book and then fell back to sleep.
Hey, friends! My (very very occasional) newsletter is up, with dates for #hanukkah #bookstore events to celebrate "THE BOOK OF CANDLES: 8 Poems for Hanukkah."
Come say hi, do some holiday shopping at a wonderful indie bookshop, & maybe sign up for my newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/laurelsn...
Come say hi, do some holiday shopping at a wonderful indie bookshop, & maybe sign up for my newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/laurelsn...
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hey, friends! My (very very occasional) newsletter is up, with dates for #hanukkah #bookstore events to celebrate "THE BOOK OF CANDLES: 8 Poems for Hanukkah."
Come say hi, do some holiday shopping at a wonderful indie bookshop, & maybe sign up for my newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/laurelsn...
Come say hi, do some holiday shopping at a wonderful indie bookshop, & maybe sign up for my newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/laurelsn...
This is massive, folks. Blue wins in statewide elections in GA are no small feat. Gives me a #shiverofhope. #election #elections
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is massive, folks. Blue wins in statewide elections in GA are no small feat. Gives me a #shiverofhope. #election #elections
We did it! And some of these suburban ATL counties are shocking me!
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
We did it! And some of these suburban ATL counties are shocking me!
Just a little reminder, as you head to the movies to see #JeremyAllenWhite play #Bruce, that it's never too early to teach your little ones about The Boss.
#springsteen #kidlit #littlegoldenbooks #delivermefromnowhere
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714118...
#springsteen #kidlit #littlegoldenbooks #delivermefromnowhere
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714118...
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just a little reminder, as you head to the movies to see #JeremyAllenWhite play #Bruce, that it's never too early to teach your little ones about The Boss.
#springsteen #kidlit #littlegoldenbooks #delivermefromnowhere
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714118...
#springsteen #kidlit #littlegoldenbooks #delivermefromnowhere
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714118...
Ten bucks says we see @staceyabrams.com out there, feeding people, in about two minutes.
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ten bucks says we see @staceyabrams.com out there, feeding people, in about two minutes.
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What’s a college without a gigantic pendulum?
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What’s a college without a gigantic pendulum?
Baltimore, I'm home for the holidays!
Kick off the season at The Ivy Bookshop, with me & my friends, @dansantat.bsky.social and @ellenoh.bsky.social ! We'll sign books and goof and laugh.
Then, a few weeks later, come back and bring the kids for a banorah-making party and Hanukkah storytime!
Kick off the season at The Ivy Bookshop, with me & my friends, @dansantat.bsky.social and @ellenoh.bsky.social ! We'll sign books and goof and laugh.
Then, a few weeks later, come back and bring the kids for a banorah-making party and Hanukkah storytime!
October 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Baltimore, I'm home for the holidays!
Kick off the season at The Ivy Bookshop, with me & my friends, @dansantat.bsky.social and @ellenoh.bsky.social ! We'll sign books and goof and laugh.
Then, a few weeks later, come back and bring the kids for a banorah-making party and Hanukkah storytime!
Kick off the season at The Ivy Bookshop, with me & my friends, @dansantat.bsky.social and @ellenoh.bsky.social ! We'll sign books and goof and laugh.
Then, a few weeks later, come back and bring the kids for a banorah-making party and Hanukkah storytime!
October 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here's a blast from the past! Many years ago, on her wonderful podcast, The Book of Life, Heidi Rabinowitz asked me about the Jewish nature of my books, and it changed my career.
I feel so grateful to have time capsules like this, that bring me back to earlier versions of myself.
I feel so grateful to have time capsules like this, that bring me back to earlier versions of myself.
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Here's a blast from the past! Many years ago, on her wonderful podcast, The Book of Life, Heidi Rabinowitz asked me about the Jewish nature of my books, and it changed my career.
I feel so grateful to have time capsules like this, that bring me back to earlier versions of myself.
I feel so grateful to have time capsules like this, that bring me back to earlier versions of myself.
Hey! You! Please help circulate this petition?
Our reading bowl in GA has (very selectively) eliminated titles from the list this year, despite the fact that they were on the state awards list.
Including, ironically, @samiraahmed.bsky.social's THIS BOOK WON'T BURN.
Sign/repost the petition?
Our reading bowl in GA has (very selectively) eliminated titles from the list this year, despite the fact that they were on the state awards list.
Including, ironically, @samiraahmed.bsky.social's THIS BOOK WON'T BURN.
Sign/repost the petition?
October 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hey! You! Please help circulate this petition?
Our reading bowl in GA has (very selectively) eliminated titles from the list this year, despite the fact that they were on the state awards list.
Including, ironically, @samiraahmed.bsky.social's THIS BOOK WON'T BURN.
Sign/repost the petition?
Our reading bowl in GA has (very selectively) eliminated titles from the list this year, despite the fact that they were on the state awards list.
Including, ironically, @samiraahmed.bsky.social's THIS BOOK WON'T BURN.
Sign/repost the petition?
Guys guys guys!!
The entire digital F&G of Shrinking Violet *is* online. But I'm not sure whether you can see it without logging in...
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
The entire digital F&G of Shrinking Violet *is* online. But I'm not sure whether you can see it without logging in...
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Guys guys guys!!
The entire digital F&G of Shrinking Violet *is* online. But I'm not sure whether you can see it without logging in...
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
The entire digital F&G of Shrinking Violet *is* online. But I'm not sure whether you can see it without logging in...
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
@slj.com's Day of Dialog is tomorrow, & it's FREE to join!
I'm so excited! This is my first chance to talk about my spring book with LeUyen Pham, Shrinking Violet, which is full of gorgeous art (as you might expect).
I'm on a panel with a bunch of other wonderful creators at 3:55. Join us?
I'm so excited! This is my first chance to talk about my spring book with LeUyen Pham, Shrinking Violet, which is full of gorgeous art (as you might expect).
I'm on a panel with a bunch of other wonderful creators at 3:55. Join us?
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@slj.com's Day of Dialog is tomorrow, & it's FREE to join!
I'm so excited! This is my first chance to talk about my spring book with LeUyen Pham, Shrinking Violet, which is full of gorgeous art (as you might expect).
I'm on a panel with a bunch of other wonderful creators at 3:55. Join us?
I'm so excited! This is my first chance to talk about my spring book with LeUyen Pham, Shrinking Violet, which is full of gorgeous art (as you might expect).
I'm on a panel with a bunch of other wonderful creators at 3:55. Join us?
My grandmother was a huge fan of Marcia Brown, and also a children’s librarian near LA, where authors sometimes toured. These are some of my most prized possessions.
October 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My grandmother was a huge fan of Marcia Brown, and also a children’s librarian near LA, where authors sometimes toured. These are some of my most prized possessions.
My grandmother was a huge fan of Marcia Brown, went to meet her, and got my copies signed. Pretty special.
October 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My grandmother was a huge fan of Marcia Brown, went to meet her, and got my copies signed. Pretty special.
A question for my illustrator friends. If I were seriously considering going back to school to learn to draw, would you recommend a I study illustration, specifically, or drawing and painting?
September 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A question for my illustrator friends. If I were seriously considering going back to school to learn to draw, would you recommend a I study illustration, specifically, or drawing and painting?
Also sending you my grandmother's apple cake.
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Also sending you my grandmother's apple cake.
And if you buy it from Little Shop of Stories, they'll ship it!
Also, I'll go in and sign it for you, and toss in some adorable "banorah" sticker sets and Hanukkah cards!
I'll be doing a bunch of events later in the season, but why wait?
Also, I'll go in and sign it for you, and toss in some adorable "banorah" sticker sets and Hanukkah cards!
I'll be doing a bunch of events later in the season, but why wait?
September 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And if you buy it from Little Shop of Stories, they'll ship it!
Also, I'll go in and sign it for you, and toss in some adorable "banorah" sticker sets and Hanukkah cards!
I'll be doing a bunch of events later in the season, but why wait?
Also, I'll go in and sign it for you, and toss in some adorable "banorah" sticker sets and Hanukkah cards!
I'll be doing a bunch of events later in the season, but why wait?
But while it's WAY too early to celebrate Hanukkah, it's not too early to order THE BOOK OF CANDLES, your new favorite Hanukkah picture book!
September 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
But while it's WAY too early to celebrate Hanukkah, it's not too early to order THE BOOK OF CANDLES, your new favorite Hanukkah picture book!
I know what you're all thinking! You see the Hanukkah decorations flooding stores earlier each year. You hear all those Hanukkah carols playing in the grocery store. Everywhere you look, someone is playing dreidel or eating a latke, and you want to say, "ENOUGH ALREADY! IT ISN'T EVEN HALLOWEEN!"
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I know what you're all thinking! You see the Hanukkah decorations flooding stores earlier each year. You hear all those Hanukkah carols playing in the grocery store. Everywhere you look, someone is playing dreidel or eating a latke, and you want to say, "ENOUGH ALREADY! IT ISN'T EVEN HALLOWEEN!"