This book was recognised by the Keystone to Reading Book Award.

This book is part of a book series called Reading Rainbow Books .

This book was published 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf .

STEVE JOHNSON and LOU FANCHER have collaborated on over 45 picture books. Their work has received rave reviews and won awards, including My Many Colored Days , I Walk at Night , and New York's Bravest . Visit them online at www. johnsonandfancher. com. Anne Mazer grew up in a family of writers in upstate New York. Intending to be an artist, she studied at the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. She then went to Paris for three years, where she studied French and French literature and where she began to write. She is the author of over thirty-five books, including the picture books THE SALAMANDER ROOM and THE NO-NOTHINGS AND THEIR BABY, as well as several novels. Her series include The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes and Sister Magic. She lives in Ithaca, NY with her husband. Visit her at www. amazingmazer. com.