This book was recognised by the Orbis Pictus Award.

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

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) .

Tracey Fern is the author of several other picture books, including Dare the Wind and Barnum ' s Bones, both Junior Library Guild selections. She lives in West Newton, Massachusetts. Kathleen Krull, the noted social historian, lives in San Diego, California. Boris Kulikov, the illustrator of the series, lives in New York City.