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Credits
 | Keep Houston Beautiful Elliot and
Friends Recycling Activity Book, written and illustrated
by D McNabb |
| Keep Houston Beautiful A Guide for
Creating Environmental Outdoor Learning Centers, by Rachel
Caplan, illustrated by D McNabb |
| Composting Activity Series, Grade 5,
Keep Houston Beautiful, The Houston Corporate Recycling
Council, The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission |
| A Kids’ Earth Quilt Garden Primer
with an Adult Guide to Earth Quilt Gardens, by Dee Hruska,
illustrated by D McNabb, Houston Chronicle |
| Compost Fun, Keep Houston
Beautiful and The Harris County Department of Education |
| The Little Kids Litter Party Handbook,
by Dee Hruska, illustrated by D McNabb, Houston-Galveston Area
Council and Keep Houston Beautiful |
| Leaping into Whole Language, Fifty
Nifty Ways to Make A Book, by Dottie Ports, Kaplan Press |
| Leaping into Literature Fifty Nifty
Ways to Make A Book, by Loretta Hatfield and Dottie Ports,
Kaplan Press |
| On The Wings of Joy, The Story of
Ballet from the 16th Century to Today, by Trudy Garfunkel,
photographic hand tinting, D McNabb, Little, Brown and Company |
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As a child when sent off to bed at night,
Debi would close the bedroom door, hop into bed, turn off the
light, reach up to the shelf for a book and turn on a flashlight
to read. Almost nightly her father would walk by the bedroom,
open the door and tell her she was going to ruin her eyes
reading in the dark. She would agree to turn off the flashlight
and go to sleep if he would first check under the bed where she
was sure the monsters lived.
Debi grew up in Germany and had a youth
filled with art lessons. She liked trips to London where her
mother would buy her books printed in English. Returning to the
United States for college, Debi obtained a Bachelor of Arts,
College of Fine Art and a Bachelor of Science, College of
Journalism and Communication from the University of Florida.
Debi is a Florida resident, accredited
public relations professional, and an award-winning
illustrator. She is the creator of the educational and
entertaining Elliot and Friends for children ages 4 –8.
Elliot, a loveable, flying canine and her multi-cultural friends
travel through portals in Elliot’s backyard to take children on
adventurous journeys around the world, to space, under the sea
and home to their own backyard. The magical adventure stories
Elliot shares are entertaining while inspiring children to learn
about their world and be good global citizens.
Elliot and Friends puppets have
traveled to special events, parades and schools throughout
Florida, Texas and Virginia since 1995 to perform in specially
created programs. Debi is currently working on a series of
Elliot and Friends storybooks and activity books. A
television special will begin production June 2003. Some of
Debi’s accomplishments include: receiving the Global Schoolhouse
“Share and Unite” Leadership Award, being an invited guest
author/illustrator for READ IN 2001 and 2002, and being an
invited guest presenter at the 3rd World Summit on
Media for children in Thessalonaki, Greece in 2001.
Debi works with Global SchoolNet
Foundation. She is illustrating and designing GSN's
CyberFair Teachers Guide and has served as the host of GSN's
Online Expeditions.
She is a member of Keep Daytona Beach
Beautiful Board of Directors and a Mote Marine Whale and Dolphin
Hospital Stranding Animal
 Care
Team volunteer.
She still sometimes checks under the bed
for monsters. |
