This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Holiday House .

Barbara Kanninen is a children's writer, award-winning Ph. D. environmental economist, and chair of her local school board. She lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband. Lynn Rowe Reed is the creator of numerous picture books. She is the author of Shark Kiss, Octopus Hug, illustrated by Kevin Cornell, and has illustrated other books, such as Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver and her own Pedro, His Perro, and the Alphabet Sombrero, which was selected for a Best in Children's Book Illustration show at the Museum of American Illustration. She has also illustrated for the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times-bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.