A squirrel, a hot-dog stand, the planet Jupiter...what will get shrunk next? After Tom moves in with his grandmother next to the Bywater-by-Sea Model Village, he makes a wish on a shooting star and gets the curious ability to shrink things. The first thing he shrinks is Jupiter, then some sheep and a boat. But without Jupiter in place, the Earth is slowly being drawn towards the Sun. With the angry (and miniaturised) school bully yelling from his pocket, Tom has to return Jupiter and save Earth -- all while trying to make friends in his new home. The first in the SHRUNK! Adventures, Fleur Hitchcock has written a hugely imaginative and quirky story that is good, clean fun.

 

This book is part of a book series called Shrunk .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Templar Publishing .

Born in Chobham and raised outside Winchester, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. She spent her smallest years reading Tintin and Batman, and searching for King Alfred's treasure. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur works with her husband, a toymaker, looks after other people's gardens and tries to grow vegetables. Andy Parker was born in 1967 in Woking, Surrey and has been drawing almost non stop since he could hold a crayon. After attending college in the mid eighties he worked as a graphic designer, but by the early nineties his love of drawing and a growing interest in computer graphics took over and he decided to embark on a freelance career in illustration. He became one of the first illustrators in the UK to 'go digital' and since then has enjoyed great success producing illustrations for children's books, magazines, advertising, games and publishing in general. He now lives in Hampshire with his long-suffering wife, son, cat, dogs, chickens and goldfish