This book was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award.

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

There are 28 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Jude Daly was born in London and emigrated to South Africa as a young child. She went to art college in Cape Town, and now lives there with her husband, the writer and illustrator Niki Daly, and their two sons. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Diana Reynolds Roome taught English as a foreign language in Nepal and is now a freelance writer specialising in travel. Jude Daly was born in London and emigrated to South Africa as a young child. She went to art college in Cape Town, and now lives there with her husband, the writer and illustrator Niki Daly, and their two sons.