4th positive trade review for my picture book debut, The Abominable Snow Dancer, this time from The Horn Book 📯📚🎉

Look at this beautiful sweet potato chrysalis

Read if you want insight into the editing and development process for my picture book debut, The Abominable Snow Dancer 😊

Surprise indie game drop! Tittivillus Teaches Typning is the ultimate educational* typing game, perfect for if you're a 12th century monk trying to get his fancy manuscript in time to please a grumpy abbot! *not #gamedev #indie #medieval #art #game #gaming #itch #demon chromokun.itch.io/typning

Stunned & thrilled YOU AND ME ON REPEAT popped up (twice!!) on @comicsjournal.bsky.social’s year end list :’) shoutout @andrewfarago.bsky.social and @henrychamberlain.bsky.social :)

Merry holidays from Chestnut the bunnny

This #HolidaySeason, we're getting cozy with cocoa and the heartwarming picture book “The Abominable Snow Dancer” by author/illustrator @stephlaubooks.com Otto the yeti dreams of becoming a dancer against all odds in this laugh-out loud story that inspires us to persevere & dance to your own beat.

If you're looking for a last minute kid's holiday gift, may I suggest The Abominable Snow Dancer? It's got ✨ Sparkles! 🦄 Unicorns and Cryptids! 🩰 Dancing! As well as a whole lot of silliness. It's also a book about chasing big dreams. 💖 www.stephlaubooks.com/abominable

Trying to come down from Launch Brain

Mini Otto visits Children's Fairyland in Oakland, for a reading of his picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer! So many fun things to do and see. His favorite thing was the big dragon slide. 💜💜💜 #booksky #kidlit #oakland @penguinschoollib.bsky.social

Tomorrow!

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there is a pattern for creating cross body bags in the shape of BIRDS. Pigeon, duck, chicken, blackbird, loon, you name it! 🤩

If you wanna get some custom art, books, prints, or stickers please order by Dec 16th. After that, just digital products will be up as I take a much needed break :) www.etsy.com/shop/ArtOfRo... #smallbusinesslove #workingartist #artbusiness

Mini Otto takes a trip to his favorite place: The Library! But wait! What's THAT book? 😍 The Abominable Snow Dancer came out just last month, and is available wherever books are sold (as well as your library!). @penguinschoollib.bsky.social @oaklibrary.bsky.social #booksky #librarysky #kidlitart

I am brimming with holiday spirit

This Saturday at Children's Fairyland! 3PM! My last event for the year, and also your last chance to see me in the yeti suit, at least for a little while 😄. I will be doing a read aloud of The Abominable Snow Dancer, and a live drawing demo using audience suggestions!

almost to $1000! help make this year’s donation to local charities our biggest ever ~ new beadwork in the store: www.etsy.com/shop/katehar...

Drawing a crowded comic con for a gig and I can't use any copyright characters and it's been a blast making up new iconic heroes like Gumball Machine Robot and Caveman Sherlock Holmes. #KidLitArt

Mini Otto takes a trip to his favorite place: The Library! But wait! What's THAT book? 😍 The Abominable Snow Dancer came out just last month, and is available wherever books are sold (as well as your library!). @penguinschoollib.bsky.social @oaklibrary.bsky.social #booksky #librarysky #kidlitart

Psst, if you'd like to win a copy of The Abominable Snow Dancer, it's in this giveaway! #kidlit

Day #6 of 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Funny Picture Books. Humor may be subjective but odds are at least a couple of the books on this list will deeply amuse some child in your life/classroom. #31days31lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/06/3...

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Santi Casares an author-illustrator in search of representation.

@authorsabb.bsky.social members & anyone who loves authors and books & hates fascism, your time to wear your values on your chest has come! Just in time for the holidays, snag an Authors Against Book Bans tee or hat & help us raise $ to fight censorship. WIN WIN! www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard. I'm Steph, an author-illustrator of PBs & GNs. My debut picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer (Penguin Workshop) came out last month! ❄️Likes stories with misfits and mischief 🩰Used to be a pastry chef 🦄Loves ice cream Rep @allielevick.bsky.social www.stephlaubooks.com

Bunny sleep, no book for human

It's been 1 MONTH since my debut picture book ❄️🩰The Abominable Snow Dancer🩰❄️ launched. Highlights: - 4 launch events + 1 school visit (and one more event still incoming!) - Mychal Threets held my book (🤯!!!) - Our smiling faces in PW Daily 😎 - Reading my book aloud makes me feel weirdly powerful 🪄👶

She’s here!!! 🖤💖

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

Chestnut likes to clean clean clean

I did make dessert, though 😀

Quite enjoying my decision not to host Thanksgiving this year 😎

Getting your gift list ready? I've got pins, patches, and charms up in my store! Use code SMILECROC for 20 percent off now until December 7th! www.etsy.com/shop/JaymeBr...

Going ice skating today and I'm tempted to go in the yeti costume

November just keeps giving! Click to see what awesome #picturebooks this month has brought to our shelves (and that you should definitely add to your classroom or library's too). 2/3

BOOP!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

A little book related mail going out today 😎 #kidlitart

#KidLitArt chat is tonight! Come chat!

My latest author interview, where I talk about my pet bunny, my artistic journey, and how Over and Under the Snow saved my bacon.

Still laughing about the school visit where a kid asked me what my favorite thing to draw was, and I *really, really* wanted to say "BUTTS!" (You'll be proud of me. I said, "Monsters and creatures." instead)

i’m a writer by trade, but my hands•on hobby is making artful soaps (and other bath / body / fragrance goods) with my mom and sister 🥹🫶🏼 if you’re shopping for holiday gifts soon or just need a pick•me•up, please consider sossapo.com! code BLUE15 nabs u 15% off 💙

If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS. Keep our neighbors safe. FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...

Thanks for the lovely writeup about the The Abominable Snow Dancer, Kerry! 🥰 kerryaradhya.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-a...

It’s that time of year again — Book Angel time @oblongbooks.bsky.social ! You can come into the store to choose books for the kids in our program — or you can donate online and the booksellers will shop on your behalf. 📕 👼 📚 oblongbooks.com/bookangel

This event is tomorrow! 😎

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Look, I'm in the daily photo for Publishers Weekly! And also @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social and Jo Wu! (Credit for this lovely photo goes to @jerroldconnors.bsky.social)