For Sal, that meant wandering around with his friends and drawing and painting what he saw. Salvatore (Sal) Murdocca grew up in Brooklyn, New York, back in the days when, as long as he showed up at school and the dinner table, a kid was free to follow his own inclinations and explore his own imagination. Since then, she has traveled extensively in the United States and throughout the world, visiting schools and speaking on issues related to children's literacy and books. Osborne served twice as president of the Authors Guild, the country's oldest and most established organization for published authors. But her greatest adventure is the creative journey she takes with her legions of loyal readers-meeting them in person in schools and bookstores and reading the wonderful stories and letters they send. With Jack and Annie, she has traveled through time, from the prehistoric land of dinosaurs to the imaginary world of Camelot. Mary Pope Osborne has written almost 100 books, including biographies, mysteries, picture books, novels, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythology. By the time she was 15, Mary had lived in 13 different houses and gone to 8 different schools! Writing the Magic Tree House books was a perfect career because she could travel all over the world-and still be home in time for dinner.

In a companion series called the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers, Mary Pope Osborne joins forces with her husband, Will Osborne, or her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, to explore the real-life science and history behind each novel.Īuthor of the beloved chapter book series about the exploits of a pair of time-traveling siblings, Mary Pope Osborne says she was 'born into adventure.' Because her dad was in the army, every year or two her family would move to a different state or even a different country. The Merlin Missions are longer than the books in the original series, and some take place in fantasy realms like Camelot rather than in historical times. In the second, beginning with Christmas in Camelot (formerly Book #29, now Book #1 of the Merlin Missions series), Arthur's court magician Merlin sends the kids on a series of difficult, often dangerous, learning quests. In the first, King Arthur's sister-the sorceress Morgan le Fay-sends Jack and Annie Smith from their home in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, on a series of magical missions, each with a specific objective.

The Magic Tree House series consists of two subseries. Every book opens the doorway into another place and time, and soon the siblings find themselves confronting dinosaurs, mummies, ninjas, knights, and more unexpected adversaries. Mary Pope Osborne's bestselling adventure series follows the exploits of a perfectly normal brother and sister, Jack and Annie Smith, who discover that the books in their tree house are anything but ordinary.

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