Hannah Salyer

A walk in the park.

My bound copy of Rain & the Reading Horse has arrived!!

So beautiful, @hsalyer.bsky.social!!

@clarionbooks.bsky.social

Happy National #ilovehorses day!!

And thanks, #publishersweekly for the starred review!

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Stunning & heartfelt art by @hsalyer.bsky.social

From @clarionbooks.bsky.social

#horses
#horsepoweredreading
#therapyhorses
#equinetherapy
#kidlit
#horsebooksforkids

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!

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@clarionbooks.bsky.social
@harperkids.bsky.social

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.

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...

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Yay!!! 🐺💚

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.

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

Dead bumble bee enshrined in a flower circle

Rest easy little friend 💫 thanks for helping make this place beautiful

My birthday falls on the Worm Moon this year. Which is also pi day, and Purim. Prepping accordingly 🪱

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.

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

Happy belated anni to our sweet Wolf 💚🐺💫

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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 reminder for these times.

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

This book is very close to my heart ❤️ can’t wait to share it will everyone on October 7th!

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...

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Love this from #MacBarnett

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.

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! 😃

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 🌱

Katie :’) thank you, you are too kind. I feel quite lucky to have such a wonderful collaborator 💚🐺✨ and I can’t wait for your new titles!!

It’s so lovely!

Pigs climb on a roof to form the letter “A”, the first page of Arthur Geisert’s “Pigs A to Z”.

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

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.

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:

Thank you Eliza!! 😅

Thank you Maria ♥️

Peaceful dispatch from deadline zone: