This book is part of a book series called Young Hippo Magic .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Scholastic .

Elizabeth Lindsay trained as a drama teacher and worked for Theatre in Education, taking drama programmes into schools. She was also a puppeteer on the long-running children's TV series Pipkins, playing Topov the Monkey and Octavia the Ostrich. She has written over thirty books including the The Magic Pony series, and various television scripts including The Hoobs and Heggerty Haggerty. Nick Sharratt was winner of the Sheffield Book Award and the Children's Book Award in 2001.