This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

This book was published 2008 by Farrar Straus Giroux .

JILL ESBAUM is the author of several picture books, including Ste-e-e-e-eamboat a-Comin'!, illustrated by Adam Rex. She lives on a farm in Dixon, Iowa. David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including Toy Story ; Monsters, Inc . ; A Bug's Life ; Cars ; BlueSky's Robots ; and Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants . He's also written and illustrated several picture books, among them Hansel and Diesel , The Three Little Rigs , The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten . He's one of the illustrators of Jon Scieszka's fifty-two-book, New York Times bestselling series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch. com.