This book was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award.

This book was published 1999 by Penguin Books Australia .

Cynthia Surrisi holds an MFA from Vermont in Children's Lit and is the author of one middle grade novel The Maypop Kidnapping. She is the former RA of the Hawaii chapter of SCBWI. Diane Goode has illustrated over 50 beloved and critically acclaimed picture books, including the New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers and the Caldecott Honor Book When I Was Young in the Mountains. Lloyd Alexander is one of America's most distinguished authors. He has won the Newbery medal and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Children's Literature from Parents' Choice and another from the World Fantasy Convention.