This book is part of a book series called Read On .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

This book was published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

By Christopher Martin, Gareth Calway, Keith West, Robert Francis, Ian Kirby and Caroline Bentley-Davis Catherine MacPhail is an award-winning author with an excellent reputation in schools and bookshops. Her other Barrington Stoke books are Picking on Percy, Sticks and Stones and A Kind of Magic. She lives in Greenock. Dan Tunstall was born in Leicester in 1969. As well as teaching, he has worked in a factory making fridges, in marketing, as a gardener and as a market trader. He's a keen Leiscester City supporter. He now lives in Leicester with his wife, two daughters, and a variety of pets. By Caroline Bentley-Davis, Najoud Ensaff, Steve Eddy, Matthew Tett, Gareth Calway and Nicola Copitch Alan and Robbie Gibbons are father and son. Together they have written three stories for the Read On series.