This book was recognised in the Primary School category by the Keystone to Reading Book Award. It was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Parents' Choice Award.

This is volume 2 in Maxs Words .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 32 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 Farrar Straus Giroux .

Author Kate Banks and illustrator Georg Hallensleben have collaborated on several books, including And If the Moon Could Talk , winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, The Cat Who Walked Across France , Baboon , and The Night Worker , winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Banks lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons. Hallensleben lives in Paris. Kathleen Krull, the noted social historian, lives in San Diego, California. Boris Kulikov, the illustrator of the series, lives in New York City.