Janina Vigurs (rhymes with "ya seen a tiger's") is a professional oral storyteller and play-maker. She quite often works in schools, nurseries, festivals, and private parties - and once commandeered a Shetland pony stable (it was snug). She has now written three books for Chip & Korky's Fables & Fairy Tales series: this, Pirate Grace and the Mermaid Medicine, and The Dance of Persephone. She lives in Essex with her husband Leaf (who works as a gardener - how nominatively deterministic is that!) and daughter Alice.