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The 26-Story Treehouse (2014)

by Andy Griffiths(Favorite Author)

4.38 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1250026911 (ISBN13: 9781250026910)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Feiwel & Friends

series

Treehouse

review 1: 26-Storey TreehouseThe winning team combination of whacky words from Griffiths, and laugh aloud cartoon black line drawings from Denton, have once again produced the magic we have come to expect from this duo. In this sequel to the highly popular 13 Storey Treehouse, we find that there have been a few modifications to the already outlandish structure. There’s ordinary additions like a skate ramp and a dodgem car arena, but there are also added extras like the maze of doom and an ice-cream serving robot.This robot is one of the greatest creative components, it can serve 78 ice-cream flavours, (including Pokemon-flavoured) and is called Edward Scooper- hands. He perfectly demonstrates the little added extras that Griffiths gives to the book, to keep even the adults readin... moreg the book to a younger audience amused. The crazy illustrations help those readers just away from reaching the independent “chapter book stage” plough through the over 300 pages with ease. However, the 9-10 year old market is also captured with the fun of self- inflating underpants, an anti-gravity chamber and shark tank. While clearly geared to boys, there is plenty for the girls too, including Jill’s story of how they all met and a re-appearance of the flying cats. So what are you waiting for, climb on up! Reviewed for Creative Kids Tales by Allie Mokany
review 2: This book is a recommendation for years 4 to years 7. For some students this is an easy book to read but my aim is to give students who are still struggling an opportunity to keep on par with the others who are on larger novels. This novel is rather thick but is filled with illustrations to help students relate to the events in the story. This book helps to build confidence to readers who are still not reaching their full potential. It is an achievable novel to read because of the many illustrations and almost comic book like writing.The 26 Story Tree house is a story written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton. These two men are friends and the book is a story about them. They take us on an imaginative adventures of how they met and come to live in this 26 story tree house. They have built this tree house with the most amazing and ridiculous living areas. Here is an extract from the book: " We've added a dodgem car rink, a skate ramp (with a crocodile-pit hazard), a mud-fighting arena, an anti-gravity chamber, an ice-skating pond (with real live ice-skating penguins), a recording studio, a mechanical bull called Kevin, an ATM (that's an Automatic Tattoo Machine, in case you didn't know), an ice-cream parlour with seventy-eight flavours, run by an ice-cream serving robot called Edward Scooperhands, and the Maze of Doom - a maze so complicated that nobody who has gone in has ever come out again." How amazing is this. The vocabulary that is used is simpler but it does have a lot of play on words and double meanings, this books uses the continuous re-iteration of puns. For students who also just have a great sense of humour this is the book for them. For weaker students, or reluctant readers, through all the joking and wit presented to them in writing, they are learning without evening realising it. Although this book is aimed at boys I believe both genders can read it and enjoy the great writing of an author that believes in reaching children and encouraging them to love reading. In the classroom students can create their own tree houses and comic strips along with some written text to explain their creations. less

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