Everything You Need for a Treehouse

By Carter Higgins and Emily Hughes

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781452153261

Carter Higgins

Carter Higgins is an elementary school librarian, book blogger, and former graphic designer. A Rambler Steals Home is her debut novel. She lives in Southern California.

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Reviews for Everything You Need for a Treehouse

[abigailadams26 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Author Carter Higgins and illustrator Emily Hughes join forces in this lovely picture-book tribute to treehouses - how to build them, and how to use them. "Everything you need for a treehouse starts with time and looking up and imagining a home of timber and rafters in wrangled, gnarled bark." So begins Higgins' poetic narrative, which sets out everything you will need, whether physical or spiritual, to build a house in the trees. The accompanying illustrations depict a wide range of treehouses, in a wide range of settings, all beings used by a diverse range of children for a variety of fun activities...Although I did find the text of Everything You Will Need for a Treehouse engaging, in the end it was the artwork that really made this one special for me. Emily Hughes, those Wild and The Little Gardener both offer beautiful examples of picture-book illustration, creates absolutely gorgeous visual feasts here, and I found myself longing to live in a number of the treehouses she depicted. There is something magical about some of these scenes, something that captures that enchanted feeling of being in the forest. The scene with the treehouse libraries, in particular, felt almost elvish to me, as did the one with steps leading up and around the tree's trunk, to the structure above. Recommended to all young children who long for a treehouse of their own, or for some other space in which to dream and play.

[melodyreads · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

imagine a tree house ...

[Neona Kalla · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really love this one! this is just like my dream, I want to build my own treehouse.

[Wardah · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

And now i wish i have a tree house. Such a pretty illustrations.

[cynthiamackey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved the lyrical language and the illustrations brought me back to my treehouse days as a child growing up in North Vancouver, B.C. This book captures the imaginations of young and old.