IvyKids Saturday: Let’s Make Flower Crowns! With Laurel Snyder, author of SHRINKING VIOLET

We’re making flower crowns in the Ivy’s outdoor space! Come on over and celebrate Shrinking Violet, an inspiring modern fairy tale about a brave girl who shrinks and grows depending on how she feels, showing how all of us–no matter our size–are so much bigger than our fears. Written by one of the Ivy’s most beloved children’s book authors, Laurel Snyder, who will be with us to make our crowns, and illustrated by Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator LeUyen Pham. Order SHRINKING VIOLET here! RSVP here! Laurel Snyder grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the author of numerous critically acclaimed novels for children including The Witch of Woodland, Orphan Island, and My Jasper June. Laurel is also the author of the Charlie & Mouse series for early readers, as well as numerous picture books including Endlessly Ever After, Hungry Jim, and Swan, The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova. Her books have won the Theodore Seuss Geisel Medal, the Sydney Taylor Medal, the Orbis Pictus Honor, the E.B White Readaloud Honor, the Golden Kite Honor, and have been long-listed for the National Book Award.