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With its slapstick humour, brilliant absurdities and
some bonus puzzles to solve at the back of the book, The
13-Storey Treehouse is the best 'tall story' you'll read this
year! -- Lancashire Evening Post on 13-Storey Treehouse
Longtime collaborators Griffiths and Denton (Killer Koalas from
Outer Space) get metafictional in their latest book (first
published in Australia), and the result is anarchic absurdity at
its best... Denton's manic cartooning captures every twist and
turn in hilarious detail, as babies are pelted with garbage,
yapping dogs squashed, and monkeys catapulted into the distance.
-- Publishers Weekly, on 13-Storey Treehouse
Full of crazy, funny pictures, which will make you laugh . . .
Extremely enjoyable, very funny and easy to read! --
SophieStarlight, Guardian.com
Especially good for reluctant readers as it is heavily
illustrated and VERY funny . . . This really is the coolest
treehouse ever!, Angels & Urchins
Packed with cartoons and craziness, Sunday Express
This book is about friends Andy and a Terry that live in a really
cool 13-storey treehouse, with cool things like a ing alley,
games room and secret lab. They invent things and write things;
Andy does the writing and Terry does the pictures. I could read
this book on my own without assistance. I read it pretty quickly
as it was really interesting and funny, so I wanted to keep
reading it. I liked there was chapters, so I could read to the
end of the chapter and knew where I was picking up, and each
chapter was a good length. I liked at the end of the book there
were fun things to do; a word search, maze, spot the difference,
a quiz and jokes. The black and white illustrations helped bring
the book to life. Chapter 7 the monster mermaid, maybe be y
to some readers. The pictures of the monster aren't really y,
but what is written might e some; talks about eating people,
but goes into detail; ripping limbs, crushing heads etc, so a bit
gruesome. One chapter has one word all the way through, which was
silly but funny. The friends get up to some crazy things, an
enjoyable book. -- Toppsta Reviewer, on 13-Storey Treehouse
My son absolutely adores this whole series of books. They are
hilariously funny but so imaginative and creative. I've
recommended them to so many people and haven't yet found a child
who doesn't love them. This first book sets the scene with Andy
and Terry - the characters and authors/illustrators - living in a
treehouse with 13 stories who are meant to be writing a book but
keep getting distracted by an endless stream of hilarious
madness., Toppsta Reviewer
I bought this book (the first in a series) on the basis of many
positive reviews. Having now read it, I know my decision is
vindicated. It's funny, hugely imaginative and has LOTS of
pictures. What child would not want a treehouse with see-through
swimming pool, lemonade fountain, games room, ing alley and
marshmallow machine? Besides, this one is also home to
book-making duo Andy, the writer, and Terry, the illustrator. But
story-making isn't always straightforward, especially when there
are gorillas to contend with. No matter, flying cats to the
rescue! And when the story is over, there are still jokes, a
spot-the-difference, a maze, wordsearch and treehouse triva to
enjoy.
Children with the latest brain-to-brain-information technology
will be able to read it; others will have to ask for it at the
library or a bookshop. They will also want to visit
http://www.andygriffiths.com.au/ for loads more fun and the
latest from author Andy Griffiths.
-- Toppsta Reviewer, on 13-Storey Treehouse
Brilliant series and if you haven't read them yet why not? Start
at the beginning and work through them all. Laugh out loud funny
and I love reading about all the things they have in their
treehouse., Toppsta Reviewer
I bought the set of these after reading the other Toppsta
reviews. My son read this book solidly in one day. He has LOVED
it, the mix of text and illustrations is ideal for this age
range, I could hear him laughing away to himself whilst he was
reading it, although I'm not convinced he followed the whole
story, he has since read most of it again (as we were out and the
next one was at home) A fabulous buy that will be read time and
time again., Toppsta Reviewer
From the Inside Flap
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Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has thirteen new
levels! They've added a chocolate waterfall you can swim in, a
volcano for toasting marshmallows, a bulldozer-battling level, a
baby-dinosaur-petting zoo, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a
boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-ray room, a disco
with light-up dance floor, the world's iest roller coaster
and a top-secret thirty-ninth level which hasn't even been
finished yet! But what good is all this stuff when Andy and Terry
are trying to write their fastest book ever? You'll have to read
it to find out!
The 39-Storey Treehouse is the third book in Andy Griffith's and
Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the
laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and
fantastic cartoon-style illustrations.