This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Houghton Mifflin .

Rebecca Bond grew up in Peacham, Vermont. When she is not having fun painting and writing, she is busy fixing up her old house in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston and spending time with her two young children. She is the author of several picture books and has illustrated one chapter book, The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root . Christopher Pennell 's first novel is The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root, which he began writing after he and his wife moved into a house with a small woods behind it and their daughter was born. He lives in Rockwall, Texas.