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  • from 2004
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    • Collins Update 04
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    • McCaffrey Update 04
    • McDonald Update 04
    • Coleen Paratore
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    • GLS Update 04
    • Vivian Vande Velde
    • Wheeler Update 04
    • Melissa Wyatt
  • from 2003
    • Toni Buzzeo
    • Brent Hartinger
    • Laura Williams McCaffrey
    • Greg Leitich Smith
    • Spinelli Update 03
    • Lisa Wheeler
  • from 2002
    • Laurie Halse Anderson
    • Haemi Balgassi
    • Pat Lowery Collins
    • Joyce MacDonald
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  • from 2001
    • Cynthia Leitich Smith
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About Debbi

Debbi Michiko Florence is a third-generation Japanese American and has fond memories of spending childhood vacations visiting relatives in Japan. A former teacher and zoo educator, Debbi now writes full time. She is the author of two nonfiction children's books, Japan: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book and China: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book (Williamson Books), and also writes children's fiction.

Debbi is a member of SCBWI and has volunteered at numerous conferences. She has called many places home, including Michigan, Mexico, New York, and China, but is happy to be back in her native state of California.

She has always loved to write, but before she started writing full time, Debbi worked in retail clothing, managed a pet store, volunteered as a raptor rehabilitator, received a degree in zoology (with a minor in English), got her teacher's certificate, taught fifth grade, was the Associate Curator of Education for a zoo, and still is a mom and a wife!

She loves traveling, coffee, delicious food, dogs (and is partial to her rat terrier, Trixie), shopping with her teen daughter, and getting lost in a great story!

 

Available for purchase :

Japan: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book

China: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book

Both at your favorite book store, at Williamson Books, or your favorite online source!

About Japan:

A review at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup.

Interviews with Me:

Cynthia Leitich Smith interviews me on Cynsations (June, 2008).

Jama Rattigan interviews me on Alphabet Soup (May, 2008).

October 2007issue of WOW! Women On Writing.

Interview with Me by Trixie the Rat Terrier

Read my personal views essay at Paper Tigers:

Great Expectations: Breaking Down the Wall of Assumptions