Penny Schneider is a Long Island New York based author illustrator of children’s books and graphic novels full of humor and heart.  She is the author illustrator of the children’s graphic novels ARTY (September 2024) and the sequel ARTY TOO (May 2026) published by Monarch Educational Services. She has been happily doodling her entire life. She loves working in kinds of media, but a pencil and paper are her favorite (next in line would be working in clay!). She recently retired (June 2025) from an over 33 year career teaching art in the Massapequa School District in Massapequa, New York. She was inducted into the Massapequa Hall of Fame in August 2026 for her work in education and community service projects. Currently she is a speaker for Nassau BOCES and Eastern Suffolk BOCES with her program What Does An Author Illustrator Do Anyway? She loves sharing her stories, art and process with her readers… growing readers, creative artists and lots of smiles and laughs.

As a child, if you asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, her answer was “a girl Walt Disney”. Writing and illustrating children’s books now, she is living her childhood dream.