This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Black-Eyed Susan Award.

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

There are 40 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 2008 by Hyperion Books for Children .

Lane Smith is the creator of It's a Book , It's a Little Book, Grandpa Green and A Perfect Day . In 2017 he won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for There Is a Tribe of Kids . Lane Smith and his wife, the designer Molly Leach, live in a small town in rural Connecticut, USA.