[3] The book was published in 1998 by Alfaguara in its orange series for children 10 years and older, appearing in Argentina, Mexico and other countries in South America.

In this book Natacha helps to cook by making a chocolate cake, but in place of the main ingredient she uses mud.

Natacha is, along with El ciudadano de mis zapatos (The citizen of my shoes), one of the works by Luis Pescetti that have been adapted to theater.

The Argentine Director Barbara Raimondi faithfully adapted the book to a play, apart from changing Natacha's best friend from Pati (Patricia) to Patri (Patrick) and adding stories to link the episodes together.

The author and the publisher put on a series of concerts by Luis Pescetti called "Useless to insist".