This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 years.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Houghton Mifflin .

Marjorie Flack was an award-winning author and illustrator best known for The Story About Ping . She was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York, in 1897 and died in 1958. Du Bose Heyward (1885-1940) was the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed novel Porgy, which was the basis for Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Marjorie Flack (1897-1958) was an author and illustrator of many children's books, including The Story About Ping and The Boats on the River, which received a Caldecott Honor in 1947.