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

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers .

Carole Boston Weatherford is an award-winning poet and author of over two dozen books for young readers. She lives in High Point, North Carolina. Floyd Cooper has illustrated more than sixty books for children and young adults including Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Mises of Color by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson and Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania. Patricia C. McKissack has written more than one hundred books about the African American experience.