This book is part of a book series called The Golden Hamster Saga .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-10 years.

There are 295 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Turtleback Books .

Joe Cepeda is the illustrator of many vibrant and popular picture books, including The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison and Cub's Big World by Sarah L. Thomson. He lives in Southern California. www. joecepeda. com Lilli Thal, historian and novelist, established herself on the German children's book market with her prize-winning series of humorous crime stories about Inspector Pillermeier. In Mimus she leads her readers into the dark and colourful Middle Ages. Lilli Thal lives in Southern Germany with her husband, two children and a dog. About the translator:. John Brownjohn has translated many books and screenplays into English from German and French and has been much praised for his deft and elegant use of language: 'seamless and idiomatic, without a single clumsy construction. It's a remarkable achievement to sustain a breakneck pace and never once sound as if the book were written in anything other than English'.