A must for any fan of fairy tales, told with rare and often heart-stopping elegance, and luminously illustrated." The Sunday Times

Naomi Lewis is a leading authority on the writing of Hans Andersen. She herself is a distinguished children's writer, poet, anthologiser and a much-respected reviewer of children's books. Emma Chichester Clark studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1988 she won the Mother Goose Award for her first book, Listen to This! an anthology compiled by Laura Cecil. Since then, she has become internationally known, illustrating writers such as Roald Dahl, Peter Dickinson, Anne Fine and Margaret Mahy. This year Emma was the first winner of the newly created Grinzane Junior Award for I Love you, Blue Kangaroo.