CHAPTER 1

THE 39-STORY 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 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!

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

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a chocolate waterfall,

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an active (non-erupting) volcano,

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an opera house,

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a baby-dinosaur petting zoo,

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

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

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a not-very-merry-go-round,

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

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

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

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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),

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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!

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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 39-story treehouse … I mean, there’s just so much to do …

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

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