![]() ![]() I have produced posters, leaflets, magazine covers, drawings, paintings, short stories, and poem, as well as books.” To which I would add she was also a school teacher and the mother of three.īookwise, she went on to write and illustrate the Caldecott honor book, More, More, More Said the Baby, inspired by her first grandchild.Īnd the Rosa trilogy, including Caldecott-winning A Chair for My Mother. I have worked to end nuclear power and weapons, and for women’s rights. The same year Three Days was published, she spent a month at Alderson Federal Prison Camp following arrest at a women’s peaceful blockade of the Pentagon.Īs she wrote, “At various times I have helped start a cooperative housing community, an alternative school, a peace center, and a bakery where young people could work. Williams was not just a children’s author and illustrator. That’s the part that grabs me.īut Vera B. Like all of Williams’ books, it has a big generous heart. The story’s in the guise of a young girl’s journal during a family canoe trip, illustrated in colored pencil. ![]() It was the first of her books to gain popularity, winning the Parents Choice award. Three Days was Williams’ third book, published in 1981 when she was 54. ![]() Williams’ Three Days on the River in a Red Canoe. If I had to point to the one book that made me want to be a picture book maker, I would point to Vera B. Happily, we have her wonderful books for comfort. Every week we’d visit the library and haul home a big bag of books. I came to love picture books when our kids were little. ![]()
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