A puppet, ever curious where his strings go, comes to realize there is something more important than knowing that answer.
Karen Winnick is an author and illustrator of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers, Sybil's Night Ride, Lucy's Cave, A Year Goes Round, Barn Sneeze, Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, Sandro's Dolphin and Patch & The Strings. She is the author The Night of the Fireflies. Her paintings have been exhibited in local galleries, and her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies. She has also produced a play, Kindertransport, about Jewish children sent to England during WWII.
Karen serves as President of the Board of Commissioners for the Los Angeles Zoo; the Board of Trustees Emeritus at Brown University; the Board of Trustees at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; the Board of Trustees of Fauna and Flora, International and the Board of Governors Syracuse University Hillel. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of The Jewish Museum in New York and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council in Washington, D.C.
Karen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University. She also studied in Florence, Italy, at NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and at the University of California, Los Angeles.
