Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Shrinking of Treehorn


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The result was   Keep.  Syn  ergy 16:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

The Shrinking of Treehorn

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These books do not appear to be notable because I can't any reliable sources that show it's notability. Schuym1 (talk) 03:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep, at least until someone's had a chance to go properly looking for notable sources. Failing that, Merge into a more suitable article. I read this most excellent story as a child, and this article suggests that it's a lot more than your average vanity or fancruft article. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:12, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep "The Shrinking of Treehorn" According to The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, the book won a 1971 New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the year award, and the American Library Association cited it as a notable book (, page 326). I've found a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article  which seems to be about the event in the article Chris cites. I've found some book sources ( pages 88-89,  page 223-226,  page 161 and possibly 162-164), that address some of the themes in Shrinking. Overall a google books search gets 173 hits, although some are the book itself. There are also 32 google scholar hits. I think all this suggests that "The Shrinking of Treehorn" is notable, although I haven't really looked for Treehorn's treasure. There are probably more sources out there.  Silverfish (talk) 18:16, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, per the first citation from Silverfish. Stifle (talk) 14:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep The sources found by Silverfish do an ample job of showing notability. Edward321 (talk) 23:31, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:23, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


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