There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by North-South Books (Nord-Sud Verlag AG) .

Max Velthuijs was born in The Hague in 1923, and died in 2005, aged 81. He is now considered to be one of Holland's most important creators of children's books, alongside Dick Bruna. He won many awards, including the highly prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2004.