Local author pens ‘Mama Sugar Bear’

Katie Bosch will release her children’s book, “Mama Sugar Bear: A Tale That’s a Little Bit True,” in October 2025, inspired by the bear that broke into Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate shop in Empire and devoured a 50-pound bag of sugar.

Bosch knew she had always wanted to write a children’s book, but careers and life had gotten in the way, until the bear sparked her writing skills.

“It was such big news around town, not because he broke in, but because he ate the whole 50-pound sugar bag,” she said. “When I see people and I tell them about the book, as soon as I tell them that the bear ate the whole 50 pounds, it just blows everybody’s mind. In my head, I took a hike and just wrote the whole book in my head.”