This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Henry Holt & Company .

Ralph Covert is a singer and songwriter who also writes plays, musicals, and books. His first children's album, Ralph's World (2001), was called 'the best children's album of this or any year' by Billboard magazine. Since then, he has released six 'Ralph's World' CDs. 'Say Hello,' his award-winning DVD, was Parenting Magazine's Video of the Year in 2003. He lives in Chicago. G. Riley Mills has never danced in the Nutcracker ballet, but he did perform once as the left half of a singing, dancing Siamese twin vaudeville act in a circus. Also an award-winning playwright, he lives with his family in Chicago. Laurie Keller is the acclaimed author-illustrator of Do Unto Otters , The Scrambled States of America , Open Wide: Tooth School Inside , and Bowling Alley Bandit, Invasion of the Ufonots and The Spinny Icky Showdown , Books One, Two and Three in the Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut series. Laurie Keller lives on the shore of Lake Michigan.