Miss Pinkeltink's Purse

Patty Brozo has been writing stories for and about children since taking creative writing classes in college. She is the author of Miss Pinkeltink’s Purse and The Buddy Bench. ANA OCHOA lives in Mexico and learned the art of children’s book illustration from M. Claude Lapointe at L’Ecole 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 Boy—with its main character a little Haitian boy who is subjected to discrimination and ignorance in a foreign land—was published in 2010 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

"The concept of homelessness is brought down to the youngest child's level. This is a nonthreatening and simple introduction to the topic for young children who have no prior exposure to homelessness. Simplistic but heartfelt, earnest, and a discussion starter."