This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Author Harvey Kidder, a resident of Westchester County, New York, originally wrote The Kids' Book of Chess for his son. Illustrator Kimberly Bulcken Root is a graduate of Parsons School of Design. She made her picture book debut with A Bed for the Wind. Her illustrations have appeared in The Nation, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, the illustrator Barry Root, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Roni Schotter and Marylin Hafner have collaborated on three picture books about Jewish holdays: Hanukkah!, Passover Magic, and Purim Play.