This book was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award.

This book was published 1999 by Simon & Schuster .

Raymond Chang was born in Hong Kong, moved to Shanghai when he was very young, and lived in Shanghai during the 1940s, from the Japanese occupation through the Communist regime. He later graduated from the University of London in chemistry and earned a PhD from Yale University. He taught chemistry at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Lori McElrath-Eslick is the illustrator of "Does God KnowHow to TieShoes? "by Nancy White-Carlstrom. She lives in North Muskegon, Michigan. "