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About The Author

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- Dietra Howard Sherman, Author -

Dietra Howard-Sherman is a wife, mother, grandmother, and mentor who resides in Alachua, Florida. She is the owner and director of Pattie-Cake Christian Academy, a family daycare that she co-owns and operates with her husband Gregory Sherman. She has over 25 years of experience working directly with children. She received her associate degree in Early Childhood Education from Santa Fe Community College and was blessed to intern at two of the top Christian preschools in Alachua County. The wealth of knowledge that she gains during her internship has been incorporated in her philosophy of teaching young children which involves a hands-on learning approach in a child-centered environment. For Dietra owning and operating Pattie-Cake Christian Academy is not only a business it is a ministry.

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Dietra is also the author of Getting Back to Bethel: A Journey from Religion to Relationship and several journals. Coffee, Coffee, Coffee: A Book of Opposites in the series My Teacher Loves Coffee is her inaugural children's book.  She is a member of Anderson Memorial Church of God in Christ in High Springs, FL where she is a license Evangelist and teaches Sunday School and Bible Study.

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