This book is part of a book series called Farrar, Straus And Giroux .

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

This book was published 2003 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

Phyllis Root has been writing for children for thirty years and has published more than forty books for young children. She currently teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Hamline University. Margot Apple is a freelance illustrator, having illustrated more than fifty books for children. She lives in Shelburn Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband and their pets.