How do you start afresh after a runaway success? Adventures Unlimited is Andy Griffiths’ answer, his new children’s book series after the beloved 13-book Treehouse series with the illustrator and collaborator Terry Denton. The first instalment in Adventures Unlimited, The Land of Lost Things, introduces an imaginative and madcap world of adventures for newly independent readers. Characters named You and Me embark on an adventure in their homemade adventure suits – cardboard box hats, toilet rolls, uggs and utility belts for comfort and function.
The action-packed adventure, in which Me is searching for their lost lucky rabbit’s foot, sees the pair stuck in the land of lost things. With awesome inventions and fantastical vehicles, You and Me travel across the land, meeting zany characters as they go: a bull who has lost his temper and is trying to learn to control it, and a flying watch who looks at its own wrist to check the time. Naturally, before Me can find the rabbit foot, the crew become lost and are interrupted by a couple of swashbuckling villains: the smarmy Johnny Knucklehead, his twin, Jimmy Knucklehead, and the Pirate Rabbit, all of whom are out to steal treasure and stop You, Me and their growing crew from getting home.
