There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2003 by Chicken House Ltd .

David Sim is a well-known pre-school artist and this is his second series for Campbell Books. For the past ten years David Sim has specialised in writing and designing children's books. He is also a printmaker and spends much of his time creating linocut and silkscreen prints. He lives in Scotland. Ruth Louise Symes teaches children with severe learning disabilities and also runs creative writing courses and workshops for children and adults. Her first published works were stories in the Dolphin Quids for Kids and she has since had a fantasy novel, THE MASTER OF SECRETS, published by Puffin and a comic novel, THE MUM TRAP, by Andersen.