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Baba Yaga, I have to tell you, is a bad witch. She travels a lot, but you can find her most often in Russian, Czech and Polish fairy tales. Sometimes she appears as a thunder witch – the devil’s grandmother. She is an ugly old woman with a monstrous nose and long teeth. Her hair is a frightful mess, and sometimes, in the worst cases, she eats boys and girls for dinner! There she’ll be (after dinner!) flying through the sky in an iron cauldron, sweeping her traces from the air with a broom. Each writer who has the courage to tackle Baba Yaga adds their own little deadly touches. We hope you like ours. We hope thy give you the shivers! ANNA FIENBERG ‘Baba Yaga reached over and pinched his arm. "You look a nice juicy boy…"’ A house on chicken legs? A witch who eats children? Jack’s dad can’t believe Tashi’s wild stories, about Baba Yaga…and the wicked Baron, who traps him as a prisoner for the fearsome River Pirate. Tashi has more daredevil adventures to tell. About The Author Anna and Barbara Fienberg write the Tashi stories together, making up all kinds of daredevil adventures and tricky characters for him to face. Kim Gamble is one of Australia’s favourite illustrators for children. Together Kim and Anna have made such wonderful books as The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels, The Hottest Boy Who Ever Lived, the Tashi series, the Minton pictures books, Joseph, and a full colour picture book about their favourite adventure, There once was a boy called Tashi.