This book was recognised by the Red Clover Award.

This book was published 2004 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Holly Berry is a block printmaker and acclaimed illustrator of a number of picture books, including Colorful Dreamer , How Mama Brought the Spring (Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book), The Impudent Rooster (Society of Illustrators Silver Medal), and Market Day (Golden Kite Award). She received her BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Holly and her husband Chris are the parents of two grown daughters and live on a small blueberry farm with their cats in Waldoboro, Maine. Learn more about Holly on her website, HollyBerryDesign. com.