There are 186 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Gillian Cross is perhaps best known for her Demon Headmaster series and its BBC adaptation. She has won many of the most prestigious awards for children's fiction, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Smarties Prize. Nick Sharratt was winner of the Sheffield Book Award and the Children's Book Award in 2001.