There are 64 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1997 by Walker Books Ltd .

Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award - for her children's book The Hollow Land and, in 1991, for her adult novel The Queen of the Tambourine. In addition, God on the Rocks was runner-up for the Booker Prize and Bridget and William (now available as one of two stories in the Walker Double Black Woolly Pony, White Chalk Horse) was Commended for the Carnegie Medal. Her other titles include Tufty Bear and The Kit Stories. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in an old house in Kent, which has the ruins of a monastery, a chapel and a ghost in the garden.