About the Author

Rolph Mayer served as a leading teacher and educator for four decades, as lecturer and later as principal of Lutheran Teachers College in Adelaide, South Australia. Alongside his academic interests, Rolph has long been a keen storyteller. Rolph's storytelling career began some sixty-five years ago with his first teaching assignment at Murray Bridge Primary School, where he discovered that creating and telling stories was one of the most effective ways to teach children. Since that time Rolph has been creating and telling stories to students, to children's groups at his church and to his own children, creating many unique characters along the way. Emily Bensted is a student at Muirden Senior College in Adelaide and works part time as a freelance artist.