To Inspire the Sheer Joy of Reading
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Debbi Chocolate
Reading and Writing Will Open the Doors of Imagination
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Debbi Chocolate is the author of
several books for children,
including Talk, Talk: An Ashanti
Legend, winner of the Parents'
Choice Award; My First Kwanzaa
Book; The Piano Man, winner of a
Coretta Scott King Award/John
Steptoe Award; Kente Colors; Imani
in the Belly; N.E.A.T.E. To the
Rescue!; and Pigs Can Fly! She is a
graduate of Spelman College and
Brown University. Her books have
been featured on Reading Rainbow
Television and Sesame Street. A
former editor of books for children
and former faculty member at
Chicago's Columbia College where
she taught How to Write a Picture
Book and Writing the Young Adult
Novel. Ms. Chocolate lives in a
suburb of Chicago with her
husband, Bob Chocolate, and her
two sons, Bobby and Allen Whitney
Chocolate.
Author And Literary Motivator