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

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Cynthia DeFelice is a successful children's author who lives in New York. This book was inspired by her grandfather who was apprenticed to a rural doctor at the age of twelve, and went on to become a respected surgeon. Chris L. Demarest is the illustrator of The Cows Are Going to Paris and My Little Red Car, which he wrote. He lives in New Hampshire.