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    Feb 03, 2020 3 minutes
    BY CASSANDRA LIPP

    One of Katherine S. Ulshafer’s all-time favorite things to do is read to her children. “I think it’s so important to their learning and the whole bonding experience,” the children’s book author says. “It’s just priceless.”

    So it comes as no surprise that her picture book, which won the Grand Prize in the Writer’s Digest 27 Annual Self-Published Book Awards, is called . The simple and sweet story relates the emotions of parenthood to the traits of animals. “I love you as fiercely as a mamma bear,” Ulshafer writes in the book. “I

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