6/3/2023 0 Comments The treehorn trilogyIn book 2, Treehorn's Treasure, his father is having money problems, and meanwhile Treehorn has discovered that the tree in their backyard is literally sprouting dollar bills, but again, no one will listen when he mentions this. It soon becomes clear that Treehorn is a perfectly normal little boy, his main problem being that all the adults around him are too self-absorbed to listen to a word he says. When he tries to alert his parents to this mysterious occurrence, all they're able to do is tell him to sit up straight at the breakfast and dinner table. Then as time goes by, his clothes get too big and he has to jump out of bed when he wakes up, since his feet no longer reach the floor. When we meet Treehorn in The Shrinking Treehorn, he's just discovered he's mysteriously shrunken when he finds he can't reach a shelf in his closet he has always managed to reach before (it's an important shelf too, since that's where he keeps his bubblegum and candy bars hidden). I devoured this omnibus paperback edition of Treehorn Times Three from 1991, which I borrowed from the libary in a short sitting on my sunny balcony today, and couldn't stop smiling through it all.
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