This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award. It was recognised in the Nonfiction - Upper Grades category by the Flicker Tale Children's Book Award. It also was recognised in the Grades 3-5 category by the William Allen White Childens Book Award.

This book is aimed at children in upper grades.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Lee & Low Books Inc .

Barbara DaCosta's first collaboration with Ed Young, Nighttime Ninja , won the Children's Choice Award. She makes her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Andrea Cheng is the daughter of Hungarian immigrants, and grew up among extended family -- all Holocaust survivors. She lives in Cincinnati.