This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

This book was published 2005 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Gabi Swiatkowska has illustrated many notable books for children, including My Name Is Yoon, for which she received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, and, most recently, Please , Papa , and Thank You, Mama by Kate Banks. She lives in France.