Grannie Snow adopted Silas from a local animal shelter. Grannie Snow tells us that Silas helped to full a void after her beloved 11 year old Siamese cat passed away. It’s about a Grandma who is sad at first, but then she gets a cat and she is SO happy!”.Ībove is Silas, who inspired this tail (pun intended). My son took the book as soon as it arrived and came back awhile later to tell me “It’s a great book Mom. She contacted us a few months ago about sharing her book Big Ole Striped Silas with Try Vermont First readers. You can contact her at Learn more about Big Ole Striped Silas and Snow's other upcoming books by visiting her website.Grannie Snow is not only a Vermont author, but a cat/animal lover and a big supporter of buying local. Snow is available to read her book at libraries, farmer’s markets, animal shelters and schools. “I shared something with this boy that really made an impact on him,” she says. “That’s a really, really, really good book!’” she recalls him saying at the end of the story. She recalls one experience reading at a school where she had pegged a boy as someone who might not be interested in the story, then watched him come alive as she read. 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.

Silas and Opal Meet by Grannie Snow