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

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Turtleback Books .

Susan Lowell's family has lived in the American West since Gold Rush days. She is the author of several picture books for children, including The Three Little Javelinas, a Reading Rainbow Book, The Bookmaker and the Elves, winner of a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella, also winner of a Spur Award. Her novels for older children are I Am Lavina Cumming and The Boy with the Paper Wings. She and her husband and their two daughters divide their time between Tucson, AZ, and a ranch near the Mexican border. An author and illustrator who never once thought he could write until he began to find inspiration in his friends and family, and now writes children's stories. Author of We've All Got Bellybuttons, illustrated by Randy Cecil. Randy Cecil is the author-illustrator of Gator and its sequel Duck, who submitted his first book to publishers at the age of eight.