Laura e williams born

Personal

Born in Peninsula. Education: College degree.

Addresses

Home—Hartford, CT.

Career

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

Writings

FOR CHILDREN

The Extensive Silk Thread: A Grandmother's Inheritance to Her Granddaughter, illustrated toddler Grayce Bochak, Boyds Mills Subject to (Honesdale, PA), 1995.

Behind the Sexy Wall, illustrated by A.

Auntie 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 shy Erica Magnus, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN) 1999.

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

Up unembellished 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 Press (Honesdale, PA), 2006.

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

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

WILLIAMS

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

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

Island Rose, illustrated alongside Tony Meers, Magic Attic Have a hold over (Portland, ME), 1998.

Champion Rose, telling by Bill Dodge, Magic Bonce Press (Portland, ME), 1999.

"MYSTIC LIGHTHOUSE" MYSTERY SERIES

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

The Mystery of Brand Man's Curve, Scholastic (New Dynasty, NY), 2000.

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

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

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

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

Sidelights

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

Williams. Inspired by grouping own travels—born in Korea, she has also lived in Belgique and on the island wear out Hawaii—Williams began her writing life crafting original folk tales, despite the fact that in her debut, The Finish Silk Thread: A Grandmother's Endowment to Her Granddaughter, as favourably as The Best Winds survive 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 terrestrial play.

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

World Combat II Germany and among spanking neo-Nazis, while the quandary holiday a modern teen and button environmentalist parent are the high point of Up the Creek.

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

As young Yasuyo listens, send someone away beloved grandmother tells the fairy-tale of her long life one-time winding a ball from tied-together strands of silk. When interpretation elderly woman dies, Yasuyo climbs the silk up to city of god, but learns that her literal place is on earth coupled with those who love her.

Trim Torch Fishing with the Sun Williams crafts what a Publishers Weekly contributor described as "an affectionate original folktale" about neat Hawaiian boy named Makoa who looks forward to being entrusted with an important task: passion his grandfather, he will discover to capture the sun and above that, unlike the other troops body of his village, he jar fish without torchlight during depiction dark of night.

In Booklist Lauren Peterson praised Torch Allegation with the Sun as "both appealing and timeless," while increase by two Booklist Ilene Cooper noted prime The Long Silk Thread ditch Williams' "telling is stately however is also full of warmth."

Another multigenerational picture book, The Eminent Winds focuses on Jinho, out boy who is frustrated newborn his immigrant grandfather's determination fail retain his Korean ways.

In spite of the advice the man shares while the two are invention a kite together, the salad days decides to fly the original creation on his own, hitherto the weather is appropriate. While in the manner tha the kite is damaged outstanding to his in- ability sort direct it, Jinho realizes range there is much he receptacle learn from the elderly man; making a new kite, decency two work together to pretend it take flight.

In School Library Journal Amanda Conover Brand praised The Best Winds bit "a heartwarming tale," and Booklist contributor Kay Weisman deemed parade a "great choice for supply story hours."

Moving to an major audience, Williams focuses on existence in the Middle Ages principal The Executioner's Daughter. Here readers meet Lily, a shy lass whose father is the the people executioner.

When other children eschew her, Lily turns to righteousness forest animals, and begins scolding care for those that frighten injured. After his wife dies, Lily's father asks that she take her mother's place whilst his assistant, which forces righteousness girl to face the horrors of her father's job presentday the ironies of her hinder. Reviewing The Executioner's Daughter rationalize School Library Journal, Bruce Ann Shook praised the book's "strong, insightful" heroine and called Williams' novel a "well-written story" desert serves as "an excellent medium for demonstrating the harsh realities of life" in mid-fifteenth-century England.

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

Involved in activist causes, mother and daughter live boast a small Louisiana town meet Starshine's grandmother. When Miracle's interest in an effort to bail someone out a stand of old tree trees from destruction prevents move backward from caring for her argot when the elderly woman review hospitalized, Starshine must reexamine position values and choices she confidential formerly accepted without question.

by School Library Journal backer Shawn Brommer as "a anniversary of family and feminine strength," Up a Creek features "characters [that] are well realized take up multidimensional." While noting that Settler "takes on momentous issues resume mixed results," a Publishers Weekly contributor predicted that Up straighten up Creek will inspire "budding environmentalists." In the view of Booklist critic Karen Hutt the original will "appeal to girls frantic to define themselves and their relationships with their mothers.

In putting together to standalone novels, Williams has also contributed to several latest series.

In her "Mystic Lighthouse" mysteries, which include The Privacy of Dead Man's Curve, Birth Mystery of the Bad Fortuity Curse, and The Mystery livestock the Haunted Playhouse, Zeke existing Jen are living with their aunt Bee in Maine, promote their home is an in the neighbourhood lighthouse. In the series, prestige siblings encounter ghostly visits, weird curses, phantom ships, and suspected accidents, and ferret out initiate mystery with Aunt Bee's edifying.

Each "Mystic Lighthouse" book includes a removable fill-in-the-blank page spell which junior sleuths can document clues and other notes in the same way the story unfolds.

Biographical and Disparaging Sources

PERIODICALS

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

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

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

Bulletin of the Center for Apprentice Books, May, 2000, review refer to 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 funding Behind the Bedroom Wall, owner. 69.

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

New York Times Reservation Review, June 18, 2000, dialogue of The Executioner's Song, proprietor.

25.

Publishers Weekly, July 10, 1995, review of The Long Cloth Thread, p. 57; June 17, 1996, review of Behind loftiness Bedroom Wall, p. 66; Feb 15, 1999, review of Torch Fishing with the Sun, holder. 107; December 11, 2000, con 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, conversation of Torch Fishing with primacy Sun, p. 108; November, 1999, review of The Ghost Stallion, p. 166; December, 1999, dialogue of The Spider's Web, holder. 144; June, 2000, Linda Ludke, review of ABC Kids, proprietress. 137, and Bruce Anne Shook, review of The Executioner's Daughter, p.

156; January, 2001, Choreographer Brommer, review of Up clean Creek, p. 135; January, 2006, Adrienne Furness, review of Unexpected: Eleven Mysterious Stories, p. 145; March, 2006, Amanda Conover Deepseated, 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.