This book was recognised in the Grades K-3 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Turtleback Books .

Diane DeGroat has written and illustrated seven Gilbert stories including Liar, Liar Pants on Fire and Goodnight Sleeptight, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite. Her artwork has appeared in over one hundred books for children. Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore , The S ance , The Name of the Game Was Murder , and The Other Side of the Dark , which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.