This book was recognised in the Younger Readers category by the Koala Award. It was recognised in the Fiction - Younger Readers category by the Children's Choice Award.

This book is part of a book series called Deltora Quest .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Scholastic Australia .

Emily Rodda is the author of the hugely successful Deltora Quest series, with over two million copies in print. Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year (Younger Readers) Award a record five times, she seems to know instinctively what children want to read. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.