This book has been graded for interest at 3-6 years.

This book was published 2002 by Atheneum Books .

P. I. Maltbie writes biographical stories and articles focusing on issues related to disabilities. Picasso and Minou was her first children's book. This book will be her second. Jos A. Smith is a well-known illustrator of numerous books for children, includes Abrams' Gregor Mendel and Circus Train. He is a professor of fine arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where he has taught drawing, painting, and figure sculpture. Jos. A. Smith has illustrated many popular picture books, including Goblins in Green (by Nicholas Heller, Greenwillow Books), A Creepy Countdown (by Charlotte Huck) and Clay Boy (by Mirra Ginsburg). He is also the author of a book on drawing, The Pen and Ink Book (Watson Guptill). He lives in New York. Rhonda Gowler Greene is the author of many award-winning books for children including The Beautiful World That God Made (Eerdmans). Her books have won awards from the Children's Book Council and have been selections of the Scholastic Book Club. A former school teacher, she lives in Michigan, USA, with her husband and their four grown children.