For example, in the Land of Goodies, some houses are made of chocolate. Together they venture into many new lands and have a lot of fun. Dick is not interested at first, but later on he becomes interested and gets into mischief. In later revisions, his name is updated to Rick. The Magic Faraway Treeĭick, the cousin of Jo, Bessie and Fanny, comes to stay and he joins the secret adventures in the lands of the Faraway Tree. The last land they visit in this book is the Land of Birthdays, where the brownies and the inhabitants of the Faraway Tree celebrate Bessie's birthday. The first land the three children visit is the Roundabout Land, where they give some cake to two rabbits, and the rabbits dig a hole for themselves and the three children. The lands at the top are sometimes extremely unpleasant – for example, the Land of Dame Slap (altered to Dame Snap in revised editions), an aggressive school teacher and sometimes fantastically enjoyable - notably the Land of Birthdays, the Land of Goodies, the Land of Take-What-You-Want and the Land of Do-As-You-Please.
In various chapters, one of the children gets stuck in the land. The children are free to come and go, but they must leave before the land moves on, or they will be stuck there until that same land returns to the Faraway Tree. This land is different on each visit, because each place moves on from the top of the tree to make way for a new land. At the very top of the tree, they discover a ladder which leads them to a magical land. They befriend some of these people, in particular Moon-Face and Silky.
When the children climb the Faraway Tree, they discover it is inhabited by different magical people, including Moon-Face, Silky the fairy, The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot, Mr.
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