This book was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Grand Canyon Reader Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

This book was published 2010 by Dutton Books for Young Readers .

Author of Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp and Baby's Got the Blues. This illustrator's vibrant illustrations can be seen in The Bugliest Bug and Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp (by Carol Diggory Shields). Paul Meisel has illustrated many books for children, including Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?, Energy Makes Things Happen, and What Happens to Our Trash? in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.