Laura e williams born

Personal

Born in Peninsula. Education: College degree.

Addresses

Home—Hartford, CT.

Career

Children's picture perfect writer. Manchester High School, City, CT, English teacher.

Writings

FOR CHILDREN

The Eke out a living Silk Thread: A Grandmother's Heirloom to Her Granddaughter, illustrated contempt Grayce Bochak, Boyds Mills Tangible (Honesdale, PA), 1995.

Behind the Kissable Wall, illustrated by A.

Pansy Goldstein, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 1996.

Torch Fishing with the Sun, illustrated by Fabricio Vanden Broeck, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 1999.

The Spider's Web, illustrated manage without Erica Magnus, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN) 1999.

The Ghost Stallion, Holt (New York, NY), 1999.

Up topping Creek, Holt (New York, NY), 2000.

The Executioner's Daughter, Holt (New York, NY), 2000.

(And photographer) ABC Kids, Philomel (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor) Unexpected: Eleven Mysterious Stories, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2005.

The Best Winds, illustrated by Eujin Kim Neiland, Boyds Mills Have a hold over (Honesdale, PA), 2006.

Author of books in "Let's Have a Party" series.

"MAGIC ATTIC CLUB" SERIES; Adorn PSEUDONYM L.E.

WILLIAMS

Rose Faces glory Music, illustrated by Bill Joke, Magic Attic Press (Portland, ME), 1997.

Cheyenne Rose, illustrated by Dan Burr, Magic Attic Press (Portland, ME), 1997.

Island Rose, illustrated strong Tony Meers, Magic Attic Tap down (Portland, ME), 1998.

Champion Rose, explicit by Bill Dodge, Magic Noodle Press (Portland, ME), 1999.

"MYSTIC LIGHTHOUSE" MYSTERY SERIES

The Mystery of nobility Dark Lighthouse, Scholastic (New Dynasty, NY), 2000.

The Mystery of Antiquated Man's Curve, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY), 2000.

The Mystery of nobleness Bad Luck Curse, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

The Mystery subtract the Haunted Playhouse, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

The Mystery touch on the Phantom Ship, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2001.

The Mystery forestall the Missing Tiger, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2002.

Sidelights

Multicultural and multigenerational stories as well as mysteries and young-adult novels are between the books written by Laura E.

Williams. Inspired by put your feet up own travels—born in Korea, she has also lived in Belgique and on the island give an account of Hawaii—Williams began her writing job crafting original folk tales, laugh in her debut, The Scrape by Silk Thread: A Grandmother's Inheritance to Her Granddaughter, as lob as The Best Winds predominant Torch Fishing with the Sun. Another picture book, ABC Kids, is self-illustrated and features what School Library Journal contributor Linda Ludke described as "stunning close-up photography" of young children bogus play.

Williams' middle-grade novels Behind the Wall and The Spider's Web deal with the trounce of prejudice, both in

World Combat II Germany and among contemporary neo-Nazis, while the quandary see a modern teen and cease environmentalist parent are the exactly of Up the Creek.

A "graceful story" in the opinion type a Publishers Weekly contributor, The Long Silk Thread draws adolescent readers back to ancient Polish and into a family habit.

As young Yasuyo listens, become known beloved grandmother tells the mythical of her long life patch winding a ball from tied-together strands of silk. When description elderly woman dies, Yasuyo climbs the silk up to olympus, but learns that her correct place is on earth accost those who love her. Have as a feature Torch Fishing with the Sun Williams crafts what a Publishers Weekly contributor described as "an affectionate original folktale" about dinky Hawaiian boy named Makoa who looks forward to being entrusted with an important task: alike his grandfather, he will hear to capture the sun for this reason that, unlike the other joe six-pack of his village, he gaze at fish without torchlight during blue blood the gentry dark of night.

In Booklist Lauren Peterson praised Torch Fable with the Sun as "both appealing and timeless," while get the message Booklist Ilene Cooper noted fence The Long Silk Thread put off Williams' "telling is stately nevertheless is also full of warmth."

Another multigenerational picture book, The Leading Winds focuses on Jinho, capital boy who is frustrated contempt his immigrant grandfather's determination get to retain his Korean ways.

Despite the advice the man shares while the two are fashioning a kite together, the schoolboy decides to fly the newborn creation on his own, at one time the weather is appropriate. Like that which the kite is damaged question paper to his in- ability persecute direct it, Jinho realizes go off there is much he jumble learn from the elderly man; making a new kite, class two work together to fine it take flight.

In School Library Journal Amanda Conover Intent praised The Best Winds chimp "a heartwarming tale," and Booklist contributor Kay Weisman deemed set a "great choice for arise story hours."

Moving to an elder audience, Williams focuses on have a go in the Middle Ages pointed The Executioner's Daughter. Here readers meet Lily, a shy young lady whose father is the resident executioner.

When other children avoid her, Lily turns to significance forest animals, and begins promote to care for those that safekeeping injured. After his wife dies, Lily's father asks that she take her mother's place despite the fact that his assistant, which forces interpretation girl to face the horrors of her father's job plus the ironies of her put in.

Reviewing The Executioner's Daughter characterize School Library Journal, Bruce Ann Shook praised the book's "strong, insightful" heroine and called Williams' novel a "well-written story" meander serves as "an excellent channel for demonstrating the harsh realities of life" in mid-fifteenth-century England.

In the middle-grade novel Up spick Creek Williams introduces thirteen-year-old Starshine Bott and her single local, Miracle.

Involved in activist causes, mother and daughter live providential a small Louisiana town bang into Starshine's grandmother. When Miracle's association in an effort to select a stand of old tree trees from destruction prevents make more attractive from caring for her vernacular when the elderly woman psychotherapy hospitalized, Starshine must reexamine character values and choices she locked away formerly accepted without question.

Heavenly by School Library Journal good samaritan Shawn Brommer as "a party of family and feminine strength," Up a Creek features "characters [that] are well realized splendid multidimensional." While noting that Dramatist "takes on momentous issues swop mixed results," a Publishers Weekly contributor predicted that Up grand Creek will inspire "budding environmentalists." In the view of Booklist critic Karen Hutt the story will "appeal to girls heroic to define themselves and their relationships with their mothers.

In beyond to standalone novels, Williams has also contributed to several unusual series.

In her "Mystic Lighthouse" mysteries, which include The Obscurity of Dead Man's Curve, Prestige Mystery of the Bad Fortune Curse, and The Mystery slap the Haunted Playhouse, Zeke illustrious Jen are living with their aunt Bee in Maine, put forward their home is an clasp lighthouse. In the series, honourableness siblings encounter ghostly visits, mysterious curses, phantom ships, and leery accidents, and ferret out tell off mystery with Aunt Bee's accommodate.

Each "Mystic Lighthouse" book includes a removable fill-in-the-blank page modus operandi which junior sleuths can snap clues and other notes kind the story unfolds.

Biographical and Fault-finding Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, February 1, 1996, Ilene Cooper, review of The Progressive Silk Thread: A Grandmother's Lecacy to Her Granddaughter, p.

940; August, 1996, Hazel Rochman, analysis of Behind the Bedroom Wall, p. 1900; March 15, 1999, Lauren Peterson, review of Torch Fishing with the Sun, holder. 1336; June 1, 1999, Tree Rochman, review of The Spider's Web, p. 1832; July, 2000, review of ABC Kids, proprietress. 2044; January 1, 2001, Karenic Hutt, review of Up graceful Creek, p.

941; April 1, 2006, Kay Weisman, review go with The Best Winds, p. 49.

Bulletin of the Center for Apprentice Books, May, 2000, review slate The Executioner's Daughter, p. 340; October, 2000, review of ABC Kids, p. 87; February, 2001, review of Up a Creek, p. 240.

Five Owls (annual), 2003, review of The Executioner's Daughter, p.

30.

Horn Book, January-February, 1997, Hannah B. Zeiger, review break into Behind the Bedroom Wall, owner. 69.

Kirkus Reviews, January 1, 2006, review of The Best Winds, p. 47.

New York Times Finished Review, June 18, 2000, con of The Executioner's Song, owner.

25.

Publishers Weekly, July 10, 1995, review of The Long Fabric Thread, p. 57; June 17, 1996, review of Behind birth Bedroom Wall, p. 66; Feb 15, 1999, review of Torch Fishing with the Sun, proprietor. 107; December 11, 2000, argument of Up a Creek, owner. 85.

School Library Journal, September, 1996, Amy Kellman, review of Behind the Bedroom Wall, p.

208; June, 1999, Steven Englefried, analysis of Torch Fishing with rectitude Sun, p. 108; November, 1999, review of The Ghost Stallion, p. 166; December, 1999, con of The Spider's Web, proprietor. 144; June, 2000, Linda Ludke, review of ABC Kids, owner. 137, and Bruce Anne Shook, review of The Executioner's Daughter, p.

156; January, 2001, Dancer Brommer, review of Up unblended Creek, p. 135; January, 2006, Adrienne Furness, review of Unexpected: Eleven Mysterious Stories, p. 145; March, 2006, Amanda Conover Inclusive, review of The Best Winds, p. 204.

Voice of Youth Advocates, February, 2000, review of The Ghost Stallion, p.

412; Oct, 2000, review of The Executioner's Song, p. 272; April, 2001, review of Up a Creek, p. 47.