and her daughters moved north to be closer to her parents. Her son had already graduated from college when E.D. After graduating, she taught fifth grade until her parents’ health began to fail. She continued taking writing classes after the birth of her second daughter, but when she and her husband divorced, she went back to school and entered the SIMAT (School Immersion Masters in the Art of Teaching) program at Johns Hopkins University. worked part time in her husband’s business and took writing classes at the local community college. When her son was four, the family moved to the state of Maryland. She married her husband while in college, and had two children a few years after graduating from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Baker was born in Buffalo, New York and spent most of the next eighteen years in the Town of Tonawanda with her older brother and her parents. The Frog Princess inspired the Disney's Princess and the Frog!Į. Baker made her international debut in 2002 with The Frog Princess, which was a Texas Lone Star Reading List Book, A Book Sense Children's Pick, a Florida's Sunshine State Readers List pick & a 2006 Sasquatch Book Award nominee.
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