![]() ![]() ![]() Williams followed up the acclaimed book with two outings with Rosa: Something Special for Me (1983) and Music, Music for Everyone! (1984, both Greenwillow). With her picture book A Chair for My Mother, she introduced the character Rosa, a young Hispanic girl whose mother carefully saves the tips she’s earned from waitressing so that they can buy a new easy chair. Williams’s output reflected her working class roots, and through her vibrant, naive artwork style, she often addressed difficult yet deeply relevant themes. She made her first foray into publishing when she illustrated Remy Charlip and Lilian Moore’s Hooray for Me! (Parents’ Magazine Pr., 1975). In 1949, Williams obtained a BA from Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. When she was nine, one of her paintings was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. She demonstrated a passion for art from a young age. ![]() Photo by Susan Kuklin Born in Hollywood, CA, in 1927 to immigrant parents, Williams grew up in the Bronx, NY, where she and her family moved when she was still a child. Williams, best known for her Caldecott Honor books A Chair for My Mother (Greenwillow, 1981) and " More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories (Greenwillow, 1990), died on Friday, October 16 at age 88. ![]()
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