This book was recognised in the Junior category by the North Carolina Children's Book Award.

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

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Scholastic Press .

Christopher Myers is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. He won a Caldecott Honor for his illustrations in Harlem , and has received three Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards. Myers has illustrated many books written by his father, award-winning author Walter Dean Myers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.