About the Author

Sofie B. DiMauro is a Registered nurse and a skilled author. Sofie has many years of experience in providing routine medical care for children 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 Bachelors degree 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 of two young children from the land of H.C. Andersen Sofie is familiar with the world of fairytales and the imaginary world of children. Her education and her experience travelling the world is the driving force in her work.
In addition to her charity work Sofie has worked with Children in the medical setting as a pediatric nurse since 1999, in Florida and California. She has experience in the areas of Infectious/ Internal medicine, Respiratory diseases, some oncology, step down units in NICU and PICU, some orthopedics and the 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. to publish these greatly needed books on medical procedures.