Becca Syracuse
@bookdesignbee.bsky.social
Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
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💚HAROLD THE ICEBERG IS NOT A SUPER FOOD💚 is now available wherever your favorite books are sold.
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
💚HAROLD THE ICEBERG IS NOT A SUPER FOOD💚 is now available wherever your favorite books are sold.
Today marks my 7th year at Simon and Schuster, and my 10th year in children's publishing!! I'm very emotional!
October 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Today marks my 7th year at Simon and Schuster, and my 10th year in children's publishing!! I'm very emotional!
I've made the executive decision that I don't want to needle felt all the strawberry seeds from the original sketch. What should he be holding instead?? If you had a little mushy familiar, what would he help you carry home after a long day of foraging???
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I've made the executive decision that I don't want to needle felt all the strawberry seeds from the original sketch. What should he be holding instead?? If you had a little mushy familiar, what would he help you carry home after a long day of foraging???
There's a real chance this is my magnum opus
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There's a real chance this is my magnum opus
Tried my hand at needle felting for the first time, and I am very excited by the potential of it!! There were no coherent instructions included in the kit I ordered so I deviated from the script quite a bit, but I think it turned out super cute anyway!!!! He looks so polite!
September 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Tried my hand at needle felting for the first time, and I am very excited by the potential of it!! There were no coherent instructions included in the kit I ordered so I deviated from the script quite a bit, but I think it turned out super cute anyway!!!! He looks so polite!
Show me your Pink art! 🩷🌸🌷
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Show me your Pink art! 🩷🌸🌷
Finished another Felt Little Guy!! I think he looks SO POLITE!! Would you give him treats?
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Finished another Felt Little Guy!! I think he looks SO POLITE!! Would you give him treats?
Pretty sure every art director has at least one White Whale artist they've been dreaming of working with for YEARS, who they simply CANNOT find the right project for ( I see you pitching them for every. single. project juuuuust in case).
August 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Pretty sure every art director has at least one White Whale artist they've been dreaming of working with for YEARS, who they simply CANNOT find the right project for ( I see you pitching them for every. single. project juuuuust in case).
*crying in art director* Please please please let your #portfoliday gift to yourself be adding your contact info (email), portfolio (link), and NAME to your socials. Some of you are missing opportunities because we can't reach you!!!!! 🫣
July 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
*crying in art director* Please please please let your #portfoliday gift to yourself be adding your contact info (email), portfolio (link), and NAME to your socials. Some of you are missing opportunities because we can't reach you!!!!! 🫣
Lots of new people here, so let me reintroduce myself: I'm Becca. I'm an Associate Art Director in Children's Publishing. I use this account to research artists, share my work, and hype up YOUR creative projects! I also love hockey and internet cats. Say hi sometime!
July 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Lots of new people here, so let me reintroduce myself: I'm Becca. I'm an Associate Art Director in Children's Publishing. I use this account to research artists, share my work, and hype up YOUR creative projects! I also love hockey and internet cats. Say hi sometime!
Would you still love me if I was a worm? I'd watch the whole Worm World from the pocket of your shirt.
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Would you still love me if I was a worm? I'd watch the whole Worm World from the pocket of your shirt.
SO happy to share that HAROLD THE ICEBERG MELTS DOWN was named as a Blue Spruce Honor Book at the Forest of r
Reading Festival!!! What an enormous honor! Congratulations to the winners and nominees! I am positively overjoyed to be included on such a spectacular list of creators! 🥗💚♻️
Reading Festival!!! What an enormous honor! Congratulations to the winners and nominees! I am positively overjoyed to be included on such a spectacular list of creators! 🥗💚♻️
May 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
SO happy to share that HAROLD THE ICEBERG MELTS DOWN was named as a Blue Spruce Honor Book at the Forest of r
Reading Festival!!! What an enormous honor! Congratulations to the winners and nominees! I am positively overjoyed to be included on such a spectacular list of creators! 🥗💚♻️
Reading Festival!!! What an enormous honor! Congratulations to the winners and nominees! I am positively overjoyed to be included on such a spectacular list of creators! 🥗💚♻️
In an effort to beat burnout, I've put away the iPad, and pulled out the Big Drawing Pad™️ and good ol' crayons. I love how much more confident my lines look when the medium is chunky and totally unforgiving!!
May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In an effort to beat burnout, I've put away the iPad, and pulled out the Big Drawing Pad™️ and good ol' crayons. I love how much more confident my lines look when the medium is chunky and totally unforgiving!!
I LOVED Sailor Moon growing up, but seeing "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" first (when I was probably waaaaayyyy too young) is what fundamentally changed my DNA and set the course for the next 30 years of my life.
April 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I LOVED Sailor Moon growing up, but seeing "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" first (when I was probably waaaaayyyy too young) is what fundamentally changed my DNA and set the course for the next 30 years of my life.
#illustrators I'm currently looking for an artist whose work is more painterly/ atmospheric/ bordering on abstract for a YA project. Please reply to this thread with a few samples of your work with a link to your portfolio if you think you might fit this criteria 🎨🖌️
April 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#illustrators I'm currently looking for an artist whose work is more painterly/ atmospheric/ bordering on abstract for a YA project. Please reply to this thread with a few samples of your work with a link to your portfolio if you think you might fit this criteria 🎨🖌️
My favorite guilty pleasure is spending my 20 minute walk to the midtown office rehearsing what I'll say when Humans of New York stops me
April 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My favorite guilty pleasure is spending my 20 minute walk to the midtown office rehearsing what I'll say when Humans of New York stops me
Ok the lighting in my office is unforgivable but how SWEET did the slime-green spot color turn out on this latest F.T. Lukens jacket?! Another illustrated masterpiece by Sam Schechter 💚✨🔮
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Ok the lighting in my office is unforgivable but how SWEET did the slime-green spot color turn out on this latest F.T. Lukens jacket?! Another illustrated masterpiece by Sam Schechter 💚✨🔮
Ten years dungeon
March 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ten years dungeon
Hey artists! I've updated my contact info so you'll have an easier time getting in touch! All emails can be sent to:
[email protected]
This will help ensure your emails aren't getting lost with my electric bills 😂
Say hi! Send cat pics! Show off your art! Ask about my hockey team! Whatever!
[email protected]
This will help ensure your emails aren't getting lost with my electric bills 😂
Say hi! Send cat pics! Show off your art! Ask about my hockey team! Whatever!
February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hey artists! I've updated my contact info so you'll have an easier time getting in touch! All emails can be sent to:
[email protected]
This will help ensure your emails aren't getting lost with my electric bills 😂
Say hi! Send cat pics! Show off your art! Ask about my hockey team! Whatever!
[email protected]
This will help ensure your emails aren't getting lost with my electric bills 😂
Say hi! Send cat pics! Show off your art! Ask about my hockey team! Whatever!
SO excited to see SATURDAY MORNING AT THE 'SHOP featured on CBS!!! Ken is such a tremendous illustrator and all-around kind soul, and I'm BEYOND grateful to have been a part of the team that made 'Shop. 💈♥️
February 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
SO excited to see SATURDAY MORNING AT THE 'SHOP featured on CBS!!! Ken is such a tremendous illustrator and all-around kind soul, and I'm BEYOND grateful to have been a part of the team that made 'Shop. 💈♥️
The best part of being in love is the way your speech will devolve into nonsense sounds, but you'll still understand each other perfectly
February 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The best part of being in love is the way your speech will devolve into nonsense sounds, but you'll still understand each other perfectly
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Happy Black History Month! Please consider adding more Black art to your skyline and to support working Black artists in a time where our histories and our voices are under attack. #BHM #blacksky #blackart #drawingwhileblack
February 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Happy Black History Month! Please consider adding more Black art to your skyline and to support working Black artists in a time where our histories and our voices are under attack. #BHM #blacksky #blackart #drawingwhileblack
What did you want to be when you grew up?? Younger me thought by now I would be an archaeologist/ Spy Kid.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What did you want to be when you grew up?? Younger me thought by now I would be an archaeologist/ Spy Kid.
Just some guys on the move
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just some guys on the move
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Ask Me Anything: A 50-minute AMA with Kendra Levin.
Kendra Levin is the Vice President and Editorial Director of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she supervises a team of ten editors and edits award-winning and bestselling authors. #kidlit
Kendra Levin is the Vice President and Editorial Director of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she supervises a team of ten editors and edits award-winning and bestselling authors. #kidlit
January 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Ask Me Anything: A 50-minute AMA with Kendra Levin.
Kendra Levin is the Vice President and Editorial Director of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she supervises a team of ten editors and edits award-winning and bestselling authors. #kidlit
Kendra Levin is the Vice President and Editorial Director of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she supervises a team of ten editors and edits award-winning and bestselling authors. #kidlit