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​About the Author

Dr. Valerie Williams-Sanchez is the creator of the self-published, children’s picture book series, Cocoa Kids Collection®, and a passionate advocate for multicultural literature, self-publishing, and empowerment literacy for reader of all ages.

She is Mom to Lorena, Auntie to Isaiah, and teacher to countless at-risk and special needs kids. With a Ph.D. in literacy, Dr. Valerie focuses her work, writing, and research on cultural, education/reading, and health literacies. 

     
​Among her passions, 
Dr. Valerie names savoring hot cocoa, creating fine art drawings, illustrations, and painting, as well as reading and writing creative yarns about "any and all things momentous and mundane in the world of chocolate." 
                                                     
Learn more at www.VWilliamsSanchez.org

How it All Started
     Click the link to read Dr. Williams-Sanchez's early blog post, "The Cocoa Kids Collection Thesis: Revaluing Children of Color’s Lives Through Children’s Literature,” as published on the
Valerie's Vignettes blog, (2017).
     Also inspired by the master work of W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Williams-Sanchez' scholarship continues through an exploration of W.E. B. DuBois' 
"The Brownies' Book," (2019) the nation's first Black children's magazine written    for and by black children. She also has written about the power of picture books to teach socio-emotional attributes.

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THANK YOU,  PROJECT DONORS!

Second Edition Donors 
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​First Edition Reviews and Donors (2013-2022)
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Partial list of book reviews, from:
  • Raising World Children (2022)
  • Soul Blossom Living (2020)
  • Amazon Readers' Reviews (2019) 
  • Beagles & Books (2019)
  • Huff Post (2017)
  • Barnes & Noble (2015)​
​** Indicates Donors who have supported more than one book.

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