Pirates

Magic Tree House Fact & Fiction

by Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrations)

Read the adventure and track the facts—it's two great ebooks in one!
 
Join Jack and Annie as they travel to the time of pirates and treasure maps in Magic Tree House® #4: Pirates Past Noon. Then uncover the facts behind the fiction in Magic Tree House® Fact Tracker: Pirates. It’s two favorite ebooks in one! Find out why Mary Pope Osborne’s #1 New York Times bestselling series is such a hit with kids, parents, and teachers around the world.

157 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 14, 2014

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

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This children’s book is two books in one! The first engagingly tells of Jack and Annie’s time traveling escapades with pirates and a treasure map (Book #4 in the Magic Treehouse Series). The second is a non-fiction book covering a brief history of various types of pirates, famous pirates including Sir Francis Drake, Captain (William) Kidd and Blackbeard (Edward Teach), descriptions of the various types of pirate ships (sloops, schooners, brigantines and barques) and what life was like for a pirate. I actually learned quite a few things about pirates!