Book Descriptions
for Treehorn's Wish by Florence Parry Heide and Edward Gorey
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Young Treehorn is droll and determined on his birthday when he meets a bored genie with three wishes to dispense. The author deliberately and successfully creates adult characters whose communication through clichés balances Treehorn's naïveté. Heide's sophisticated wit is matched with Gorey's patterned images and humorous extensions of their third totally original, unusual Treehorn tale. The author lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Ages 7-12)
CCBC Choices 1984 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1984. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
On his birthday Treehorn finds a genie in a bottle and is granted the standard number of wishes.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
