The pair, of Treehouse book series fame, delighted children of all ages with an engaging and entertaining performance at the Lighthouse Theatre as part of their Treehouse Tour. 

The series tells the story of the pair who live in an incredible ever-expanding treehouse and create silly books together.

Griffiths told stories on stage as Denton raced to illustrate them, with his drawings projected  onto the screen, as children laughed, yelled and cheered in the comedic display.

Families travelled from Mount Gambier, Portland and Hamilton to attend the show which was the 13^th and final stop of the tour.

A highlight was a marshmallow party at the end of the show when the pair used racquets to hit sugary treats out into the excited crowd. 

Afterwards children waited in line to meet their heroes who have written 30 books together, their first published in 1993. 

Ramius Karcew, 10, got into the spirit of the day dressed as the 78-Storey Treehouse book,  made for a school book week dress-up day.

Ramius, from Mailors Flat, has read all the books in the series. When asked which one he liked the most he said “They’re all my favourites. “I got really into reading when I got the first Treehouse book.”

His mum Rebecca Karcew, who also brought son Cooper, 7, said the session was amazing and got the kids involved. "Ramius sits up at night and reads,” Mrs Karcew said. “He does a count down until the next book’s released.” 

Kelly Hillstone from Mount Gambier brought her sons Jai, 9, and  Flynn, 11 and said it was great to have a show in the south-west. “Because Flynn’s such a big fan I was thinking about going to Adelaide or Melbourne but with school and work we couldn’t so when this popped up on a Saturday it was fantastic,” she said. 

“We value education and think reading is at the fore of all education. You’ve got to start them off with something fun and it just grows from there. It sparks and then they can carry that interest on because they have the skills.”

Griffiths said they wanted to make the show fun and it gave the children a taste of who they were and how they create.  

“We’re not just talking at them for an hour,” he said. “We try to involve them,” he said. “The kids have had such a great time with the books. The books are about doing a book that doesn’t go right, so we wanted to do a show about a show that doesn’t go quite right.”

He said getting children reading and improving literacy was what drove them. 

“Literacy is absolutely the goal underneath all this silliness,” Griffiths said. “Having kids turned onto books and associate reading with pleasure is enormous.

“We’re proud that we’ve got both boys and girls reading from the age of five to 12 because Terry’s illustrations do so much of the explaining for us. We can tell a very complex story, in a relatively few words, so even the most reluctant reader can’t resist it.” 

He said there were more books in the series to come. “There’s no limit,” he said.  “We started with 13 storeys and there’s 13 chapters in every book. We’re saying 13 books which will be another five years. We’re up to our eighth book, 104 (Storey Treehouse), that will take us to 169 (storeys). That's what we’re shooting for.”