Unlike the first three books in the series, this work is not a novel, but a series of illustrations with short text underneath. Walking into the wood they come across an enormous tree with branches that seem to stretch into the clouds, as it soon transpires that this is, in actual fact, the Faraway Tree.

This is fairly wise advice because when mortals visit enchanted settings there is considerable opportunity for disaster to occur just as there is when they descend into the ocean or ascend to the alien surroundings of the thermosphere.He swings into action and devises a way to free the children from a castle in which they are imprisoned and they are warned not to go up to the magic lands by themselves again. The lands themselves vary from nice lands, like 'The Land of Birthdays' or 'The Land of Take-What-You-Want', to not so nice lands like 'The Land of Punishments' or 'The Land of Tempers'.

Also everyone from the Land of Tempers; it's said that if you lose your temper there, then you're forced to live there for the rest of your life (which is the reason the Angry Pixie never went up there himself). Another expedition to the Faraway Tree takes place and this time they're off with Moon-Face to the Land of Roundabouts and Swings.They'll also be hit by Dame Washalot's dirty wash water, and will ask if anyone's ever been tempted to drop something into Mr. For anyone who still doesn't know what this is I can tell you that it's an enormous tree which houses many little people of fairy-extraction inside its wide trunk and it reaches a terribly long way up into the sky. He came by it from a most eligible source when Jo, Bessie, Fanny and most of their Faraway Tree friends visited "The Land of Secrets" ( The Folk of the Faraway Tree) and you will need good pronunciation capabilities to get around " Kollamoolitoomarellipawkyrollo" because, believe it or not, that's Mister Kollamoolitoomarellipawkyrollo's real name!