There are 128 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2009 by Interactive Publications .

Dianne (Di) Bates lives in Woollongong, NSW, and has been writing children's books for the past 20 years. She has published over 70 titles and has won two children's choice awards, as well as the 1993 Special Prize in the Australian Multicultural Children's Book Awards. She describes The Shape as her most important book to date as it is based on a personal experience. Di started her literary career as Assistant to the Editor of the NSW Dept of Education School Magazine. Since then she has co-edited the children's magazine, Puffinalia and has worked at hundreds of schools as a performer. Sally Rippin (illustrator) is the writer and illustrator of the Fang Fang books. Fang Fang's Chinese New Year was the winner of the 1997 Crichton Award.