This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Nonfiction - YA category by the Benjamin Franklin Award. It was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. It also was recognised in the Grades 3-6 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award.

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 72 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by Lerner Publishing Group .

Sally M. Walker is the author of the ALA Notable Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 . She is also the author of Written in Bone , Fossil Fish Found Alive , and Secrets of a Civil War Submarine , which was awarded a Sibert Medal. She lives in Illinois.