Sad coincidence: Pomegranate has just republished the Treehorn Trilogy this fall in a box set. mcnallykids: Children’s book author Florence Parry Heide died peacefully in her sleep October 23rd at her home in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She was ninety-two.  Her best-known and beloved children’s book The Shrinking of Treehorn, published in 1971 by Holiday House and illustrated by Edward Gorey, tells the story of a young boy who shrinks day after day and whose parents don’t seem to notice. She is survived by her twin daughters, two sons, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Click here for the obituary in The New York Times.

Sad coincidence: Pomegranate has just republished the Treehorn Trilogy this fall in a box set.

mcnallykids:

Children’s book author Florence Parry Heide died peacefully in her sleep October 23rd at her home in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She was ninety-two. 

Her best-known and beloved children’s book The Shrinking of Treehorn, published in 1971 by Holiday House and illustrated by Edward Gorey, tells the story of a young boy who shrinks day after day and whose parents don’t seem to notice.

She is survived by her twin daughters, two sons, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Click here for the obituary in The New York Times.