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

This book was published 2009 by Holiday House .

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. Margaret Hodges (1911-2005) was a Caldecott Award-winning American writer of books for children. She wrote and published over 40 books before retiring in 1976. She died in 2005. Trina Schart Hyman was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books and won four Caldecott awards during her career.