There are 64 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 1999 by Houghton Mifflin .

Karen Ritz has illustrated more than forty books. She has a degree in Children's Literature from the University of Minnesota, and much of her original work is housed there in The Children's Literature Research Collection. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.