This book was recognised by the Blue Peter Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pan Macmillan .

The Unknown Adventurer is still believed to be at large in the wild.