Everything You Need for a Treehouse
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Featuring beautiful images and a lyrical text with an exquisitely readable cadence, this book gives life and meaning to all the requisite elements of a treehouse, from time, timber, and rafters to ropes of twisted twine that invite visitors to sprawl out on a limb and slide back down again. For anyone who's ever wanted to escape real life and live in a nostalgic dream come true, this poignant picture book captures the universal timelessness of treehouses and celebrates all the creativity and adventure they spark.
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This fantastical picture book begins with an invitation to pause and dream: "Everything you need for a treehouse/ starts with time/ and looking up." In subsequent spreads, a diverse cast of kids creates increasingly elaborate, whimsical structures, from a spiraling tree-canopy platform to a giant, multi-story basket nestled high within branches. Poetic text from Higgins (This Is Not a Valentine) reaches for warm intimacy by directly addressing young readers, but the alliterative lines' meaning can feel obscure ("maybe a rope,/ some twisted twine/ of spun sugar and sap"). The digitally colored graphite illustrations by Hughes (Charlie & Mouse) truly shine, with scenes of children playing, reading, sharing secrets, and stargazing in wondrously detailed worlds within worlds of their own making. A final image of kids on a suburban terrace eying a single potted tree offers a return to the opening line's gentle reminder: "Everything you need for a treehouse/ starts with time/ and looking up." Ages 3 5.
