About the Author
Sofie B.
DiMauro is a Registered nurse and a skilled author and creative
thinking person, with many years of experience in treating children, both in the
everyday care at the hospital and in more critical situations. Sofie was born
and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark where she lived the first 28 years of her
life. She graduated with a bachelor in nursing from Denmark in 1996 and carries
with her the Scandinavian tradition of involving the sick child in the healing
process. As a mother to two younger children, and coming from the land of H.C.
Andersen, Sofie is familiar to the world of fairytales and the imaginary world
of children. Her education and her experience from travelling all over the world
is the driving force in her work, as well as in the charity work she does in her
spare time Sofie has worked with Children in the medical setting as a pediatric
nurse since 1999, in both Florida and California. Covering the areas of
Infectious/ Internal medicine, Respiratory diseases, some oncology, step down
units in NICU and PICU, some orthopedics and last ER.
Sofie currently lives
in California with her 2 children Sebastian and Natalia.
In 2000 Sofie started a labor of love with her
Bastian books, named after her son Sebastian. The initial inspiration came after
taking her son to a simple chest x-ray when he was 2 years old. “He was
strapped down with leather belts to his arms and sandbags to his legs, arching
and screaming, all because he didn’t know what was happening”
“IVs, x-rays, etc., can be quite traumatic for small children, and a story book is the perfect tool for parents to prepare their 2-6 year old child for upcoming procedures. Just as adults receive preparatory materials for procedures, so should children. But at their own level”
In 2008 Sofie founded Educasia, Inc. in order to publish
the greatly needed procedure books.