This book features in the following series: Red Fox Books, Red Fox Middle Fiction .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Chris Ashley, the son of children's book writer Bernard Ashley, was born in south-east London and his childhood was dominated by sport and children's books. He trained as a teacher and began writing in the 1980s. He is the head teacher of a school in Bury. Wendy Smith was born and brought up in south-west London. After studying Graphic Design at Hornsey College of Art, she trained as an illustrator at the RCA. She pursued a career in advertising, before beginning to illustrate children's books - a career she has pursued for the past twenty-five years. She also teaches illustration, part-time, at Brighton University.