About the Author

Peter Patterson studied music at Durham University in the north of England and at colleges of music in Freiburg, Germany, and Lucknow, India. He has been a Waldorf teacher since 1960, first in Britain and later in other countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. He teaches at the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School near Auckland, New Zealand, where he has lived since 1982 and continues to write new songs for young people. Since childhood, he has enthusiastically studied the world of insects and spiders and wonders how that might have influenced his songwriting.