This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 89 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Turtleback Books .

Daniel Pinkwater lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York's Hudson River Valley. Kate Messner is the author of the E. B. White Honoree Over and Under the Snow. She was middle school teacher until recently (when she switched to writing full time) and gives workshops regularly to other teachers and other authors. Andy Rash is the hilarious illustrator of such books as Superhero School, Agent A to Agent Z and The Robots Are Coming.