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Try free now"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table."
But Treehorn wasn’t pretending. He really was shrinking, and that didn’t make life easy for him as
he became smaller by the moment. Treehorn’s teacher said, “we don’t shrink in this class,” and sent him
to the Principal. Poor Treehorn spends an unhappy day and night until he discovers a magical game that
helps him solve his problem.
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Florence Parry Heide (1919–2011) was the author of more than 100 children’s books, including picture books, juvenile novels, two series of young adult mysteries, plays, songbooks, and poetry. She may be best remembered for her now-classic The Shrinking of Treehorn and its two sequels, illustrated by the great Edward Gorey. Florence grew up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, married during World War Two, and spent her adult life in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with her husband and five children, all of whom grew up listening to the joyful sounds of an old typewriter.
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