SuitabookThe 13 Storey Treehouse
Andy Griffiths
- Reading
- Read a chapter at a time, pausing to inspect how pictures add jokes or information. Invite the reader to design another treehouse storey or discuss how the characters might turn a distraction into a scene.
- Themes
- Imagination and invention: Andy and Terry live among unusual machines, creatures and rooms while trying to create a book. The exuberant inventions are treated as the engine of the book’s humour and adventure.
- Making books together: Andy writes and Terry draws, while the characters are also trying to produce a book for their publisher. The premise foregrounds the relationship between writing, drawing and the process of making a book.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the book’s deliberately outrageous humour suits the reader, including its rapid, cartoon-like shifts between inventions and bizarre situations.