This book has been graded for interest at 10-12 years.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin .

Henry Winterfeld (1901-1990) was born in Germany. He began writing for children in 1933, when he wrote Trouble at Timpetill to entertain his son, who was sick with scarlet fever. He went on to write a number of children's books, which have been published around the world.