This book was recognised by the Massachusetts Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 8+ years.

This book was published 2005 by Dial Books .

ERIC VELASQUEZ is the author and illustrator of The Price of Freedom , Grandma's Records and Grandma's Gift , a Pura Belpre Award winner. He is also the illustrator of The Piano Man , for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award.