Imagine The Possibilities! Everything You Need for a Treehouse by Carter Higgins

EVERYTHING YOU NEED STARTS WITH TIME AND LOOKING UP AND IMAGING A HOME OF TIMBER AND RAFTERS.

Summer time is the time. School is out and there is time to imagine a special place, a home, a hideout, high and hidden by thousands of leaves--a treehouse!

There are all kinds of trees--sappy pine trees, gnarly live oaks, rustling maples, oaks with scratchy bark and strong limbs. But...

MAKE SURE YOUR TREE IS TALL.

A treehouse needs a floor, for sure, perhaps a roof, and, of course...

YOU'LL NEED A WAY TO CLIMB UP AND... AND SLIDE DOWN AGAIN.

Other options include a sleeping bag for when the breeze is cool and of course, stacks of snacks, some good books, and sometimes some friends to share it all with.

But it all begins with a tree and and imagination, in Carter Higgin's Everything You Need for a Treehouse (Chronical Books, 2018), a book that portrays that place of their own that is a sort of rite of passage for young children, when climbing skills and imagination come together to create that personal space of their own. Whether it is a prefabricated tree house from the building supply store or a homemade platform crafted from leftover odd lumber, it is a beginning--a product of opportunity and ingenuity and inspiration--one of those things that humans have in abundance.

 Artist Emily Hughes' elegant imaginings of tree houses of all varieties act as further flights of fancy for design. From a simple wide branch with shelf to an elaborate multi-level structure, treehouses are fun to imagine, even if you really never get to build one. "One magical, impossible treehouse after another!" says the Wall Street Journal."