num_pages: 64
description: "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 become 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. With his usual tongue-in-cheek approach, Edward Gorey glorifies the many imaginings of the story in witty pen and ink drawings.
language: English
title: The Shrinking of Treehorn
titlecomplete: The Shrinking of Treehorn
genres: Humor, Fantasy, Comics, Picture Books, Magical Realism, Childrens, Juvenile, Fiction, Family, Art
ratings_count: 1252
series: The Adventures of Treehorn
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Bilderbuch
publisher: Holiday House