Editing Bea Wolf (section)

=== fitt 1. ===
The book opens with a cloaked child narrator, who introduces a band of rowdy, fun-loving children. He describes several of them in turn, then tells of their king Carl, who finds buried treasure with a metal detector and uses it to buy a hoard of toys for everyone to share, taking none for himself. When Carl reaches puberty, he reluctantly leaves his childhood behind. He and his friends wade to a nearby island to burn a funeral pyre of toys. Carl becomes employed at a local grocery store, and remembers his wild childhood fondly.

He passes his crown on, and the royal line continues until the eleventh monarch, Roger. King Roger uses the kingdom's amassed fortunes to construct Treeheart, a treehouse paradise for his people. Treeheart faces threats from safety inspectors and envious teenagers, but the worst of them all is Mr. Grindle.