BY HEJIRA CONVERY, KINDICARE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If your middle grade reader likes zany plotlines and funny characters, then they’ll love the Treehouse series!

Written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton, these books take storytelling to a whole new level and there are now 12 terrific titles to work through.

The 156-Storey Treehouse is hot off the press, complete with a quizzical quizbot, lost sausage office, amazing mind-reading sandwich-making machine and stacks more crazy cool stuff.

*** The 156-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton is out now via Pan Australia. ***

To celebrate this new release, we’re giving away 2 Treehouse series prize packs, each containing all 12 books (thank you, Pan MacMillan!):

• The 13-Storey Treehouse 
• The 26-Storey Treehouse
• The 39-Storey Treehouse
• The 52-Storey Treehouse
• The 65-Storey Treehouse
• The 78-Storey Treehouse
• The 91-Storey Treehouse
• The 104-Storey Treehouse 
• The 117-Storey Treehouse
• The 130-Storey Treehouse
• The 143-Storey Treehouse
• The 156-Storey Treehouse

 

For your chance to win, just tell us in 25 words or less, why you’d love this book set on your child’s bookshelf.

Send your entry to competitions@kindicare.com by 13 September 2022*.

We’ve also got some inside info to share with your kiddo.

Whether your middle grader is new to the series, or nose-deep in Treehouse re-readings, they’ll be impressed to know these 10 fun facts, passed from us to you, from Andy Griffiths himself!

 

1. Each Treehouse book takes an entire year to write and contains over 1,000 illustrations.

2. There are 13 new stories and 13 chapters in each book.

3. Andy and Jill are married in real life. (Jill is an editor and edits all the books).

4. The idea of Barky the Barking Dog came from a noisy dog that Andy and Jill lived next door to.

5. Terry’s favourite book when he was growing up was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson – which might account for all the pirates in The 26-Storey Treehouse!

6. Andy’s favourite book was The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton – which is where he got the inspiration to write about living in a treehouse.

7. Jill and her family had many pets and her favourite book as a child was Animals You Will Never Forget – which is why she lives in a house full of animals in the series.

8. In real life, Andy’s family call him ‘Andrew’ and his friends call him ‘Griff.’

9. Mr Big Nose is not Andy and Terry’s real publisher. In real life, their publisher is a nice woman called Claire who never yells at them and does not have a big nose!

10. Terry is not quite as silly in real life as his character in the books (although he IS quite silly!).

And as for the amazing mind-reading sandwich-making machine?

Well, to learn more about that, you’ll have to digest the latest Treehouse book!

*Competition opens on 6 September 2022 and entries close 11:59pm AEST on 13 September 2022. The 2 winners will be chosen based on the most original or creative entries and notified by email within 3 days of judging. Each book set is valued at $179.88 and the total prize is valued at $359.76. Entry is open to all Australian KindiCare readers, with a limit of one entry per person. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram or Facebook.