Tiana and the jewel of the bayou

Elizabeth Dawson Baker is an American children's novelist who made her international debut in 2002 with The Frog Princess, a parody of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince". The novel became a Texas Lone Star Reading List Book, A Book Sense Children's Pick, a Florida's Sunshine State Readers List pick and a 2006 Sasquatch Book Award nominee, and also partly inspired the 2009 Disney film The Princess and the Frog.