Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse is a ridiculous, laugh-on-every-page adventure for 7 year olds about two friends whose new invention writes their book for them. Until it doesn’t.<\/p>\n
Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. It’s 39 storeys high now, with a chocolate waterfall, a baby-dinosaur petting zoo and a boxing elephant called The Trunkinator. Andy writes the words and Terry draws the pictures.<\/p>\n
Their publisher, Mr Big Nose, wants the next book by tomorrow afternoon. They haven’t started. But Terry has been very busy on the secret 39th level.<\/p>\n
He’s built a Once-upon-a-time machine. You set the dials (funny all the way up to “milk-snortingly funny”, lots of action, a little romance, one explosion) and it writes and draws the whole book in eight hours.<\/p>\n
What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, actually. The machine decides their books are sloppy and badly drawn, locks them out of their own treehouse and slaps them into the forest with its giant hands.<\/p>\n
The rescue plan involves a dot-to-dot rocket, the dark side of the moon and a professor whose job is un-inventing things. He’s very good at it. Too good!<\/p>\n
Andy talks straight to you the whole way through, and the jokes come thick and fast. There’s a sleepover at their neighbour Jill’s house where every single animal ends up in the bed. And Andy can’t count, which makes joining the dots for that rocket a lot harder than it sounds.<\/p>\n
It’s the third Treehouse book (the tree grows by 13 storeys each time), but it starts by showing you round, so a new reader won’t feel lost.<\/p>\n
It’s a brilliant pick for a reader who likes a book that knows it’s a book. Some of the jokes are a bit gross (a sneeze in the face, a spooncil kept up a nose for emergencies), which is half the fun, frankly.<\/p>\n
If they want to go back a step, The 26-Storey Treehouse is where Andy finally gets round to telling the story of how he and Terry first met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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