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    The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!
    The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!
    The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!
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    The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!

    By Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

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    Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention that he—or anyone else—has ever invented . . . a Once-upon-a-time machine that will write and illustrate their entire book for them!

    Join New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton on another wild storytelling adventure in a series Publishers Weekly described as "Anarchic absurdity at its best." Welcome to The 39-Story Treehouse...What are you waiting for? Come on up!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781250077493
    The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!
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    Andy Griffiths

    Andy Griffiths is an internationally successful, award-winning children's author. His books have been bestsellers in his homeland Australia, the USA and the UK. He is the co-creator of the bestselling, award-winning Treehouse series with illustrator Terry Denton, which has been published in over thirty countries. Andy thrives on having an audience: he has worked as a high school teacher; been the lead singer in a rock band and a stand-up comedian. He has two daughters and lives in Melbourne, Australia. The first book in the Treehouse series, 13-Storey Treehouse, won the Sainsburys Children's Book Award in 2015, the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award in 2016, as well as the 2016 Coventry Inspiration Award, and the fourth Treehouse book, The 52-Storey Treehouse, won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year prize – the first children's book to ever do so.

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      picture-heavy chapter books (for kids who apparently won't pick up a book if there are too many words in it). I easily blew through 60 pages but didn't find the content all that funny or interesting. It may do better with an audience of kids (who have more active imaginations than I) and I can probably recommend it easily enough to readers who are looking for a quick read (Griffiths books practically sell themselves, with titles like _The Day My Butt Went Psycho_. It is a hefty 343 pages so beginning chapter book readers will really feel like they've accomplished something.
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      This is a really funny book. I would recommend it for people who like diary of a wimpy kid but they are struggling to find a similar book. Well you have found the right one. This is similar to it.

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    The 39-Story Treehouse - Andy Griffiths

    CHAPTER 1

    THE 39-STORY TREEHOUSE

    Hi, my name is Andy.

    This is my friend Terry.

    We live in a tree.

    Well, when I say tree, I mean treehouse. And when I say treehouse, I don’t just mean any old treehouse—I mean a 39-story treehouse.

    (It used to be a 26-story treehouse, but we’ve added another 13 storys.)

    So what are you waiting for?

    Come on up!

    We’ve added a trampoline (without a net),

    a chocolate waterfall,

    an active (non-erupting) volcano,

    an opera house,

    a baby-dinosaur petting zoo,

    an Andy and Terry’s Believe It … or Else! Museum,

    a boxing elephant called The Trunkinator (he can knock you out with one punch from his mighty trunk),

    a not-very-merry-go-round,

    an X-ray room (where you can see your own skeleton),

    a disco with a light-up dance floor and giant mirror ball,

    a high-tech office with laser-erasers, semi-automatic staple guns and jet-propelled swivel chairs,

    and the world’s scariest rollercoaster (it’s so fast, so dangerous, and so terrifying that even dead people are scared to go on it),

    and, on top of all that, there’s a level that is so new that Terry hasn’t even finished it yet … I can’t wait to see what it is!

    As well as being our home, the treehouse is also where we make books together. I write the words and Terry draws the pictures.

    As you can see, we’ve been doing this for quite a while now.

    Sure, it’s easy to get distracted when you live in a 39-story treehouse … I mean, there’s just so much to do …

    but somehow we always get our book written in the end.

    CHAPTER 2

    THE 39TH LEVEL

    If you’re like most of our readers, you’re probably wondering how long it takes Terry and me to write a book.

    Well, I guess the answer to that really depends on whether it’s a long book or a short book. Long books take longer to write than short books, which don’t take as long to write as long books, which, as I said, take longer to write than short books, which—oh, excuse me. Here’s Terry.

    Hi, Andy, he says. What are you doing?

    I’m just telling the readers about how long it takes us to write a book.

    Did you tell them that it depends on whether it’s a long book or a short book? he says.

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