Treehouses and Playhouses You Can Build

July 1, 2006 midnight

This new book offers forty plans to build unique tree house and playhouse designs for the kids. Step-by-step instructions and detailed hand-drawn illustrations make these backyard construction activities as much fun to build as they will be to use. Tips on budgeting, using basic tools, and buying materials make these design plans a no-fail weekend project for the entire family.

By David and Jeanie Stiles

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, $19.95

Parents and children can spend time together learning valuable building and woodworking skills as they create a wild space to call their own for creative play and relaxation. Build a Hobbit Treehouse, a Pirate Ship Playhouse with water cannons, or any one of the distinctive projects in this how-to guide. Impress friends and neighbors with the end product, but you don’t have to tell them how easy it was to complete!

This book is a layperson’s manual to bring the dream of an exciting and personal play spot for the kids into reality. The Stiles built a “treeless” tree house in only three hours at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and according to Matt Lauer of NBC’s The Today Show, “Jeanie and David Stiles are recreation experts!”

David and Jeanie Stiles have been called “America's First Couple of Do-It-Yourself Building Projects.”

Secret of the Alchemist Dar

By Michael Stadther

A book that the whole family can enjoy – with a chance to participate in the world’s largest public treasure hunt for jewels worth more than $2 million – will want Secrets of the Alchemist Dar, the richly illustrated sequel to The New York Times best-selling fantasy adventure, A Treasure’s Trove. Written and published by Michael Stadther, Secrets of the Alchemist Dar is scheduled for simultaneous release all over the world the morning of Tuesday, September 26.

Contained in the pages of Secrets of the Alchemist Dar are clues to a fabulous worldwide treasure hunt. Like A Treasure’s Trove, this sequel has broad appeal, to children, families and adults. During the hunt launched by A Treasure’s Trove, adults throughout the country became obsessed with solving the book’s puzzles and dubbed themselves ‘trovers.’ Likewise, families spread out across the nation or spanning several generations worked together to try and solve the clues to the real treasure. With significantly larger and more valuable treasures at stake, Secrets of the Alchemist Dar’s worldwide hunt is predicted by publishing industry insiders to continue this excitement – this time on a much larger scale.

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