This book was recognised in the Illustrator category by the Connecticut Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Roaring Brook Press .

Wendell Minor is the illustrator of many award-winning picture books for children, including Robert Burleigh's Abraham Lincoln Comes Home , If You Spend a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond and Edward Hopper Paints His World , as well as the New York Times-bestselling Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin. He lives in Washington, Connecticut.