This is an excellent multicultural story for focusing on refugees, perseverance and diverse cultures. Four Feet, Two Sandals, fiction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2007).A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed.Circles of Hope, fiction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2005).One Thing I'm Good at, fiction (New York: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard Books, 1999).Painted Dreams, fiction (New York: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard Books, 1998).A Real Christmas This Year, fiction (New York: Clarion Books, 1995).Tap-Tap, fiction (New York: Clarion Books, 1994).Applebaum's Garage, fiction (New York: Clarion Books, 1993).
With warm colors and sensitive brush strokes, this book portrays the strength, courage, and hope of refugees around the world, whose daily existence is marked by uncertainty and fear. First Grade King, fiction (New York: Clarion Books, 1992). Four Feet, Two Sandals was inspired by a refugee girl who asked the authors why there were no books about children like her.Most recently Karen has returned to Pittsburgh after living for seven years on the Navajo reservation in Chinle Arizona. When Africa Was Home, fiction (New York: Orchard Book, 1991). She has been a volunteer for the Pittsburgh Refugee Center helping find homes for Sudanese and Somali refugees in the Pittsburgh area where she was inspired to write Four Feet Two Sandals and My name is Sangoel.Baseball and Butterflies, fiction (New York: Lothrop, 1990).Galimoto, fiction (New York: Lothrop, 1990).Williams teaches literature and writing in the Chatham University Master of Fine Arts Program in Children's and Adolescent Writing. From 1990 to 1993 she lived and worked in Deschapelles, Haiti, where her husband, Steven Williams, was a doctor at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. As war breaks out, and the father is killed, the surviving members of the family make the difficult decision to flee for a better life somewhere else. She was a teacher of the deaf in Connecticut from 1977 to 1980 and a Peace Corps teacher of English in Malawi from 1980 to 1983. The Journeyis the story of a family’s journey to flee their war-torn country to find safety in another land. When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp. She was graduated from the University of Connecticut (B.S., 1974) and Southern Connecticut State University (M.S., 1977). Read 224 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Williams was born in 1952 in New Haven, Connecticut. She is best known for her books about the difficulties of children in developing countries.
Karen Lynn Williams is an American writer of children's literature. For other people named Karen Williams, see Karen Williams (disambiguation). Four Feet, Two Sandals - Hardcover By Karen Lynn Williams - GOOD Sponsored 6.14 Free shipping Four Feet Two Sandals 4.49 Free shipping Four Feet, Two Sandals 4.47 Free shipping 10 OFF 4+ ITEMS See all eligible items and terms Shop with confidence Top Rated Plus Trusted seller, fast shipping, and easy returns.
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