Dara Sanders Dokas

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Dara Sanders Dokas is the author of Remembering Mama, a picture book published in May 2002 by Augsburg Press. Her second picture book, Muriel's Red Sweater, is forthcoming in 2008 from Dutton Children's Books.

In addition to being a children's author, Dara holds a Masters in Education and is a licensed English and drama instructor who has taught creative writing for many years. She lives in St. Paul with her husband, daughter, dog, two cats and two fish.

Remembering Mama

Remembering Mama
illustrated by Angela L. Chostner
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002
ISBN 978-0-8066-4352-6, Ages 4-8

A young girl expresses emotions connected to her loss and uses memories of her mother to work through her grief. Some of the memories are hers, others are stories people tell her about her mother. Some of the stories are sweet, others are funny, but all of them help her recognize that it not only helps to remember mama, but to talk about her feelings with her dad.

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