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My good writing friend Leslie G. found a copy of my long out of print mid- grade novel,  Applebaum's Garage, at the dump in Duxbury Mass.   Am I upset about this?  Not at all.  I love the concept that a dump and have a book exchange.  And to top it off the two main characters in my book love junk as much as I do.  I am sure that Jeremy and Mr.  Applebaum(a man after my Grandfathers heart who taught me to look at junk creatively) would enjoy the Duxbury Dump as [...]

My Name is Sangoel has been nominated for the Carol W. Field award by the Pennsylvania Library Association.  This is an exciting honor.  Check it out at http://palayouthservices.blogspot.com/2010/03/carolyn-field-nominees-selected.html.And see this review of A Beach Tail in  Booklist.  Gotta love the line, " Williams always takes readers on a worthwhile journey...."Issue: April 15, 2010 A Beach Tail. Williams, Karen Lynn (Author) , Cooper, Floyd (Illustrator) Feb 2010. 32 p. Boyds Mills, hardcover, $17.95. (9781590787120). The titular tail refers here to a lion drawn in the sand by Gregory, an intrepid boy who, in extending the [...]

I visited O'Hara Elementary school this week as a visiting author.  In conjunction with my visit and my books about Haiti, Tap-Tap, Circles of Hope and Painted Dreams they had a fund raiser for Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti.  This is where my husband worked and we lived for three years.  I one school can do this think what we can all do together.  Several other schools and organizations have contacted me about visiting as part of their fundraising efforts.  what great spirit!  Here I am being presented a check for over [...]

Published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Saturday, November 7, 2009Ode To the AppleOh pome of evil, of knowledge, of sinplump and curved as a baby's buttocks.Stolen from Greek mythplanted in Eden,unnamed fruit of the Bible,stuck in Adam's throat.The lumpin my geeky boyfriend's neck, when I was a teenmade me want to touch the curious appendagebobbed up and downrun my finger over it --squeamish.Fleshy pomaceous fruit of ripened ovary,you propagate asexually,you are self incompatible.Who knew? The complications of a simple fruit.Your pale pink flower turns virgin whitejust before it falls,you fall,the fall of the [...]

Great to Have a Review in School Library Journal! Here's an excerpt:When eight-year-old Sangoel comes to the United States from war-torn Sudan, everyone mispronounces his Dinka name until he has the bright idea to make a rebus of a sun and a soccer goal on his T-shirt.  This simple story puts a child-friendly spin on a common immigrant experience as the child's classmates respond with similar puzzle pictures of their own names....The diversity of the boy's schoolmates is evident in Stock's skillfully detailed watercolor and collage illustrations...This picture book by the authors of [...]

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