The Vanishment of Thomas Tull Author:Janet & Allan Ahlberg When Thomas Tull is seven years old, he stops growing and begins shrinking. On his eighth birthday he has to stand on a box to blow out the candles on his cake - and by the time he's ten, he has to stand on the cake! — Mr and Mrs. Tull are beside themselves with worry. They send for Chef Alphonse to cook and bakes scrumptious things in the hope... more » of fattening Thomas up. They send for doctors, who prescribe pills and powders and stretching devices. But nothing works until the famous flying ace, Baron von Bolivar, arrives in his biplane to whisk Thomas off to far-away places.
Black and white illustrations on almost every page and many are full page. Well done.« less