This book was recognised in the Information Book category by the Beehive Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Henry Holt & Company .

Mel Boring is the author of a number of nonfiction picture books, as well as a novel. He lives in Rockford, Iowa, with his family. Leslie Dendy has been teaching biology and chemistry for nearly thirty years. She is the author of Tracks, Scats, and Signs and lives with her husband in Los Alamos, New Mexico.