Miss Pinkeltink''s Purse

About Patty Brozo

PATTY BROZO (Green Valley AZ and Traverse City MI) has been writing stories for and about children since taking creative writing classes in college. She is the author of Miss Pinkeltinks Purse and The Buddy Bench. ANA OCHOA lives in Mexico and learned the art of childrens book illustration from M. Claude Lapointe at LEcole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in France. Her illustrations for Storms in a Bottled Sea were selected for the Illustrators Exhibition in Bologna in 1997. Her work has been exhibited in Japan Taiwan New Delhi Bratislava Brazil Colombia and Mexico. She has worked for major publishing houses in Mexico Spain and the United States. Her book The Chocolate Boywith its main character a little Haitian boy who is subjected to discrimination and ignorance in a foreign landwas published in 2010 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).