Family – Chocolates for Breakfast

Major Don Moore and Isabel Moore, her parents

Pastel sketch by street artist of Pamela, early teens

Sweden, near the Arctic Circle, taken by Edouard (Yves) de Laurot

$New York City, early 1960\'s. Pamela on the Washington Mews near Washington Square Park. ; Adam Kanarek reading Kultura magazine$

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Historical Editions

Since its publication in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast has been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, German, Japanese and Swedish. It was a bestseller in the US, Italy and France. In the US, the Bantam paperback edition went through 11 printings and sold over a million copies in the 1950s and '60s. The 18th edition of the Italian translation, Cioccolata a Colazione, lists the total number of copies sold in Italy as of 1966 at 408,000. Cioccolata remained continuously in print in Italy through the early 2000s.