104-Story Treehouse (#9) by Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton, 373 pages. Feiwel and Friends (Macmillan), 2019, $14.
Content G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL – OPTIONAL.
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Andy and Terry are back once again in the 9thinstallment of the treehouse series. This time Terry wants to write the book but when the story goes bad, the Story Police show up to arrest the whole treehouse gang for crimes against storytelling. The crew spends most of the book trying to evade the Story Police and Story Jail.
I was rooting for the Story Police. Yes, there are some major crimes against storytelling here, namely plot. The treehouse idea is fun, but precious little actually happens in the treehouse. If you’ve read one treehouse book you’ve pretty much got the concept: something weird comes up, but our intrepid duo still writes and delivers a book to their unlikable publisher in an unlikely way just barely before the deadline. If you’re a fan and you’ve got cash to burn, yay! If not, go build your own treehouse. It will be way more satisfying.
Michelle in the Middle
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