Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: [Florence Parry Heide's] best-known book,

"The Shrinking of Treehorn" (1971), was about a boy whose parents paid little heed to him, even as he began getting littler and littler, unable to reach familiar shelves, watching as his clothes seemed to grow on him. Its comic, macabre plotline appealed to the artist Edward Gorey, who illustrated it and two sequels, "Treehorn's Treasure" (1981) and "Treehorn's Wish" (1984).

from The New York Times: Florence Parry Heide, Children's Writer and Poet, Dies at 92

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