CHAPTER 1

THE 91-STOREY TREEHOUSE

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Hi, my name is Andy.

This is my friend Terry.

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We live in a tree.

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Well, when I say ‘tree’, I mean treehouse. And when I say ‘treehouse’, I don’t just mean any old treehouse—I mean a 91-storey treehouse! (It used to be a 78-storey treehouse, but we’ve added another 13 storeys.)

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So what are you waiting for? Come on up!

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It’s got a tent with a fortune teller called Madam Know-it-all,

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a submarine sandwich shop that serves sandwiches the size of actual submarines,

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the world’s most powerful whirlpool,

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a mashed-potato-and-gravy train,

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a spin-and-win prize wheel,

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a trophy room,

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a human pinball machine,

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an air-traffic control tower,

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a 91-storey house of cards,

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a giant spider web (with a giant spider!),

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a desert island,

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a garbage dump (with a mysterious old wardrobe on top),

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and a big red button (which we’re not sure whether to push or not because we can’t remember what it does).

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

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

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Sure, it’s easy to get distracted when you live in a 91-storey treehouse …

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

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