When Anna Fienberg was little, her mother, Barbara, read lots of stories to her. At bedtime they would travel to secret places in the world, through books. The Tashi stories began when Barbara was telling Anna how she used to tell whoppers when she was a child. Creative fibs. Tall stories. And kids would crowd around her, dying to hear the latest tale. Toget

Kim Gamble is one of Australia's favourite illustrators for children. He has created wonderful artwork for many picture books, including The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels, The Hottest Boy Who Ever Lived, Joseph, Horrendo's Curse and the Minton books, with Anna Fienberg, as well as the Tashi series, by Anna and Barbara Fienberg, and First Day by Margaret

Barbara Fienberg loved making up stories when she was a child. And the stories continued for another thirty years after she became a teacher librarian. Anna Fienberg says, 'My mother, Barbara, taught at my primary school and I remember sitting spellbound in the library with the rest of the class as she read to us, my mind flying off to wherever she was going