Magic Tree House: #25-29 [Collection]

by Mary Pope Osborne

Includes: #25 Stage Fright on a Summer Night, #26 Good Morning, Gorillas, #27 Thanksgiving on Thursday, #28 High Tide in Hawaii, and #29 Christmas in Camelot.

Genres: Audiobook, Fantasy, Childrens

Audiobook

First published January 1, 2006

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

[Charles Reed · Rating 4 out of 5]

78%

It's nice to see her writing style and level of details improve.

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is where the numbering gets all wonky. this book 29 was one of the Merlin Mysteries, there is another one about baseball.

[Jaret · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how Mary Pope Osborne connected the first four stories in this collection with a common thread. In each episode Jack and Annie were looking for a natural form of magic in the world. It was fun reading about their adventures in different eras of time and locations and finding the magic of the world that surrounds us each day. Unfortunately the connections between the first four stories made the same story seem like a throwaway. It kind of had a "magical" connection, but it wasn't as seamless as the other stories were. I enjoyed it anyway.

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

to time travelling kids look into the different periods of history to solve a mystery