There are 40 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2008 by North-South Books (Nord-Sud Verlag AG) .

Mary Jane Begin is the illustrator for several children's books including A Mouse Told His Mother, Little Mouse's Painting, and The Porcupine Mouse. She has also done advertising and merchandising work for Hasbro, Milton Bradley, See's Candies, Franklin Mint, Celestial Seasonings, Disney, and many other companies, and she is an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design.