This book is part of a book series called Picture Puffin Stories .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Susan Jeffers was a Caldecott Honoree for "Stopping by Woods" and an ABBY winner for "Brother Eagle, Sister Sk"y. These outstanding books, in addition to "Hiawatha "and "The Three Jovial Huntsmen," have placed her in the very top rank of American illustrators. Susan Jeffers lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Rosemary Wells is the author of more than 40 books about Max and Ruby. She lives in Connecticut. Eric Knight (1897-1943) was born in Yorkshire, England. After moving to the United States, he eventually settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where he wrote Lassie Come-Home .