CHAPTER 1 THE 39-STOREY TREEHOUSE€¦ · a baby-dinosaur petting zoo, 13 an Andy and Terry’s...
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CH A P T ER 1
THE 39-STOREY TREEHOUSE
Hi, my name is Andy.
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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-storey treehouse.(It used to be a 26-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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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, as well as 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-storey 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.