This book features in the following series: Read Alone, Young Puffin Read Alone .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme is not levelled.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Judy Brown is an illustrator of picture books and younger fiction. This is her first novel and begins a series featuring Portia. Judy is married with two children and lives in South London.