![]() ![]() ![]() That's been “the cherry on the sundae” of the whole experience, she says. Snow has also visited elementary schools in Twinfield, Milton, Essex, South Burlington, and Swanton, among others, to read Big Ole Striped Silas to kindergarten through fourth grade audiences. Independent bookstores across the state carry the book. The second installment, Silas Gets a Sister, is slated to go to press early next month. It's the first book in a five-part series, based on Snow’s own experiences, that chronicles the adventures of Silas and a Siamese cat named Miss Opal. The picture book tells the story in playful rhyme accompanied by colorful pictures by East Burke illustrator, Matthew Gauvin. She goes to the shelter in search of a new companion and comes home with Silas. “I’m going to be 60 this year and I thought, 'If I don’t do it now I probably never will,'” she says.īig Ole Striped Silas, which Snow self-published in January, tells the story of an older woman whose beloved cat, Ninnie, has died. Snow, now the human resources director for headwear company Turtle Fur and still living in Morrisville, has always dreamed about being a writer but it wasn’t until she became a grandmother that she decided to go for it. “I was a late reader and once I started reading I was just struck by the eloquence of writing,” she says. She can’t remember its title, but she does remember clinging fiercely to the book. Brenda “Grannie” Snow had only one book in her house when she was growing up in Morrisville - a story about a bunny. ![]()
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