This book was recognised by the Blue Peter Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Neil Arksey is an actor who has performed, and is now teaching at the new Globe Theatre in London. He has written stage and film scripts and this is his second Puffin title. Neil lives in Peckham, London.