![]() Her texts emphasize the joie de vivre of ordinary activities - flying a kite, making music, eating a meal - especially when carried out amid the comforting confines of a community. Williams said in interviews, came from her own background as the daughter of an immigrant family struggling to stay afloat in the Depression. Her young protagonists are ethnically diverse, typically urban, often immigrants and rarely well heeled fathers may be absent. Williams, who did not start her career until she was in her late 40s, used picture books to express her lifelong interest in social justice issues. Her death was announced by her publisher, HarperCollins. Williams, a writer and illustrator for young people whose picture books centered on the lives of working-class families, a highly unusual subject when she began her work in the 1970s, died on Friday at her home in Narrowsburg, N.Y. ![]()
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