This book is part of a book series called Sunburst Books .

This book has been graded for interest at 3+ years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

This book was published 2003 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Author Kate Banks and illustrator Georg Hallensleben have collaborated on several books, including And If the Moon Could Talk , winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, The Cat Who Walked Across France , Baboon , and The Night Worker , winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Banks lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons. Hallensleben lives in Paris.