This book provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. It shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. And it tells the stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms nailed together by kids to arboreal palaces constructed and lived in by grown-ups.

Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories.

"Caleb and the rest of the Fort Builders, Inc. group feel like it's finally time to have their own dedicated workspace! Their big idea? A fort treehouse! But finding the perfect tree for their unique fort is a little tougher than they thought"--

Pete invites his friends over, but when he finds that his tree house is not big enough for everyone, they work together to build a fun place that can house everyone.

A cumulative tale about Jack and Jill, who build a treehouse as a group of birds and animals makes their own home in the same tree.

When their over-the-top ideas expand their amazing treehouse to include a giant submarine sandwich shop and a human pinball machine, Andy and Terry find themselves babysitting Mr. Big Nose's three troublesome grandkids.

Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.

The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.

Andy and Terry live in a 26-storey treehouse. It has a bumper car rink, a skate ramp, an antigravity chamber, an ice cream parlor with 78 flavors, and the Maze of Doom. This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about; the story of how he and Terry first met. But, life is never boring in the treehouse, and emergency shark operations, giant storms, and wooden pirate heads are just the...