{"product_id":"9780780739758","title":"Un sillón para mi mamá (A Chair for My Mother)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespues que un incendio destruye su casa y todo lo que poseen, Rosa, su Madre y su abuela ahorran hasta que logran comprarseun sillón para que las tres puedan disfrutarlo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography:  Vera B. Williams lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Her Own Words...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Throughout my childhood I was encouraged to make pictures, tell stories, act, and dance—all of this at a heaven in our New York City neighborhood called the Bronx House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Saturdays I painted with a crusading art director, Florence Cane. In her book \u003ci\u003eThe Growth of the Child Through Art\u003c\/i\u003e, I appear under the name Linda. I was sixteen when the book appeared and embarrassed by it. But at age nine I had been totally proud when a painting of mine was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and I was later shown in the Movietone News explaining to Eleanor Roosevelt its Yiddish title, \"Yentas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In 1945 I went to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, a unique educational community. I graduated in 1949 in graphic art, which I studied with Josef Albers. Along the way I planted corn, made butter, worked on the printing press, and helped to build the house in which I lived with Paul Williams, a fellow student I married there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I wanted that connection of art and community to continue. And it did at the Gate Hill Cooperative, a community we built with other Black Mountain people, a poet, musicians, and potters. I lived and worked there from 1953-1970 (after which I moved to Canada). My children (Sarah, Jenny, Merce) grew up there. For them, we branched out into a school, part of the Surnmerhill movement. The gingerbread houses that led to my first book for Greenwillow I first made in sticky variety at ourschool. I have always liked to teach and have taught art, cooking, writing, nature study, for nursery age on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At forty-six, no longer married, living in a houseboat on the bay at Vancouver, British Columbia, I did my first book. But before that could happen, the fates decreed a stint of cooking and running a bakery at a small school in the Ontario countryside. My love affair with Canada included also a 500-mile trip on the Yukon River. Many of those adventures I put in Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I also write and draw for adults-short stories, leaflets, and posters. As a lover of children, I try to do what I can to help save their earth from nuclear disaster. This pursuit, too, has added its excitement to my biography, including, in 1981, a month's stay in the federal penitentiary in Alderson, West Virginia (an outcome of a women's peaceful blockade of the Pentagon). Perhaps this experience will some day appear in one of my books. So far I've found children's books a wonderfully accommodating medium where any of my various activities might pop up.\"LANGUAGE: Spanish\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpercollins Childrens Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029187281136,"sku":"9780780739758","price":17.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780780739758_p0.jpg?v=1763662738","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780780739758","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}