Pank Plattner taught preschool for more than fifteen years. She wrote Tazie, the Magical Toad to teach children an important lesson that was missing in other books. She is retired ...view morePank Plattner taught preschool for more than fifteen years. She wrote Tazie, the Magical Toad to teach children an important lesson that was missing in other books. She is retired and lives in California and Oregon.view less