Laurel Snyder is the author of six children’s novels, “Orphan Island,” “Seven Stories Up,” “Bigger than a Bread Box,” “Penny Dreadful,” “Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains OR The Search for a Suitable Princess” and “Any Which Wall” (Random House) as well as many picture books, including “Charlie & Mouse,” “The Forever Garden,” “Swan, the life and dance of Anna Pavlova,” and “Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher.”
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Michener Fellow, she also writes books for grownups, and is the author of a book of poems, “The Myth of the Simple Machines” (No Tell Books) and a chapbook, “Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse (Burnside Review Press) and the editor of an anthology, “Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes” (Soft Skull Press).
Though Baltimore will always be her home, she now lives happily in Atlanta.
Author website: http://laurelsnyder.com/
Books in order of publication:
Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes – 2006
The Myth of the Simple Machines – 2007
Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains – 2008
Inside the Slidy Diner – 2008
Any Which Wall – 2009
Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher – 2010
Penny Dreadful – 2010
Nosh, Schlep, Schluff: Babyiddish – 2011
Bigger than a Bread Box – 2011
Good Night, Laila Tov – 2012
The Longest Night: A Passover Story – 2013
Seven Stories Up – 2014
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova – 2015
Charlie & Mouse (Charlie & Mouse # 1) – 2017
Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy (Charlie & Mouse # 2) – 2017
Orphan Island – 2017
The King of Too Many Things – 2017
The Forever Garden – 2017
Charlie & Mouse Even Better (Charlie & Mouse # 3) – 2019
Hungry Jim – 2019
My Jasper June – 2019
Charlie and Mouse Outdoors (Charlie & Mouse # 4) – 2020
Charlie and Mouse Lost and Found (Charlie & Mouse # 5) – 2021
Endless Everafter – 2022
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