The 104-Storey Treehouse

If you're looking for colour, fun and so much imagination then you can't go past The 104-Storey Treehouse.

I'm a wee bit late to all the fuss. This is the eighth and latest book in the Treehouse series written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton. I've not read the other seven... yet.

So the first book is called The 13-Storey Treehouse, the second The 26-Story Treehouse and then every 13 storeys there's a new book. After listening to a radio interview with the Australian pair I went out and bought their latest offering.

It's a long book for a child - 351 pages to be precise. What made me laugh was that 27 of those pages just had the words "Up and Up and Up and Up and Up and Up and Up" on each page accompanied by illustrations of a staircase and cute chatter in speech bubbles from the book's main characters as they went on their never ending climb. 

If you've read some of the other books you will know that Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. It's now 104 storeys high. The treehouse has everything you could imagine including a Two Dollar Shop, a Two Million Dollar Shop, a Deep Thoughts Thinking Room and a Money Making Machine (wouldn't we all like one of those?).

In this book Andy has agonising toothache but has a deadline to meet to finish writing his next book. He needs the Joke Writer 2000 pen to help him write the book and so the pair along with their friend Jill go on an adventure to get the pen. I loved the poem about pens, pencils and writing utensils.

I don't think you need to read the other seven books before reading the 104-Storey Treehouse. I enjoyed the story and was captivated by the illustrations and reading the chatter in the little speech bubbles. There is even a joke on each double page spread to annoy your parents  or others with.

Five stars for this one! Now I'm off to read the other seven books.