This book is part of a book series called New York Review Children's Collection .

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by The New York Review of Books, Inc .

Alastair Reid (b. 1926) is a poet and a scholar from Galloway in Scotland. He has lived in Europe, the United States, and Central and South America, working variously as a poet, translator and South American editor of the New Yorker .