Magic Tree House: #45-48

by Mary Pope Osborne

A Crazy Day with Cobras
Merlin’s beloved penguin, Penny, has been put under a spell! It’s up to Jack and Annie to find the four things that will break the spell. When the magic tree house whisks them back to India over four hundred years ago, they discover an amazing and exotic world filled with great danger.
 
Dogs in the Dead of Night
Jack and Annie must find a rare flower to save one of their best friends! So when the magic tree house whisks them back in time to the Swiss Alps, they’re confused. How can they find a flower buried under ice and snow? Jack thinks their mission is hopeless! 
 
Abe Lincoln at Last!
When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to Washington, D.C., in 1861, Jack can’t wait to meet Abraham Lincoln himself! But the new president is too busy to see them, as he is desperately trying to save a nation in crisis.When Jack and Annie ask for some magical help, they go back even further in time to a mysterious woods.
 
A Perfect Time for Pandas
Jack and Annie are off to a village in the mountains of southeast China, close to a world-famous panda reserve. Will it be their easiest adventure yet? Not a chance! Jack and Annie don’t know it, but they’ve arrived on the day of a historic earthquake!

Audio CD

First published January 8, 2013

About the author

Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will Osborne.

Reviews

[Alberto Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

My girls loved this adventure series in audiobook. And what could be better than fun for the whole family while commuting to uneventful places?