This book was recognised in the Younger Children category by the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.

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

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Emily Arnold McCully received the Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire . The illustrator of more than 40 books for young readers, she divides her time between Chatham, New York, and New York City.