Pippa is the snobby one of the four friends at ballet school. She's boasted that she's already danced on pointe shoes to impress her friends but when it comes to the first lesson, she has to admit she was making it up. She is surprised that her friends like her much more for being truthful.
Harriet Castor was just thirteen when the first of her Fat Puss novels was published. She went on to become a children's book editor and now writes full time for both children and adults. A real ballet enthusiast, she is the author of the popular Ballerinas series.