Andy Griffiths - The 117-Story Treehouse

Hi, my name is Andy.

This is my friend Terry.

We live in a tree.

Well, when I say tree, I mean treehouse.

And when I say treehouse, I dont just mean any old treehouseI mean a 117-story treehouse.

(It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but weve added another 13 stories.)

So what are you waiting for?

Come on up!

Weve added a tiny-horse level,

a pajama-party room,

an Underpants Museum,

a photo-bombing booth,

a waiting room,

a treehouse visitor center with a 24-hour information desk, a penguin-powered flying treehouse tour bus, and a gift shop,

the Door of Doom (dont open it or youll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!),

a circus with fire-eaters, sword-swallowers,

chair-tamers, trapeze artists, and clowns,

an all-you-can-eat-including-the-furniture level where you can eat absolutely everything, including the furniture,

a kite-flying hill,

a traffic school,

a giant-fighting-robot arena,

and a water ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhasdont fall in!

As well as being our home, the treehouse is where we make books together. I write the words, and Terry draws the pictures.

As you can see, weve been doing this for quite a while now.

It can get a little crazy at times

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

If youre like most of our readers, youre probably wondering why its always me who tells the story and never Terry.

Yeah, says Terry. Ive wondered that, too. How come I never get to tell the story?

Because Im the narrator, I say, and youre the illustratorthats why!

I can narrate, too, you know, says Terry.

No, you cant, I say.

Yes, I can! says Terry.