The Afternoon Treehouse by Robert Ingpen

The Afternoon Treehouse Reviews

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  Debbie Robson

  As a grandmother I am seeing and reading a lot of children’s books lately and the sublime cover of this caught my eye. The Afternoon Treehouse by Robert Ingpen. I love his illustrations and the storyline is enchanting. The narrator discovers a tree house built into an old oak tree.
  “I needed to give it a name, to distinguish it from all the other treehouses I have studied or
  read about in books. I could not call it its owner’s name until I found out who that was. So I called it the ‘afternoon treehouse’, since that is when I discovered it.”
  The details in some of the illustrations are exquisite particularly the pages showing all the handwritten notes, clippings and newspaper cuttings that have been pinned up on the walls of the treehouse. The storyline and pictures give so much to intrigue younger readers and set them thinking and wondering. A joy.
  
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  Joshua

  Strange and surreal.