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Magic Tree House is an American children's series written by American author Mary Pope Osborne. The original American series was illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca until 2016, after which AG Ford took over [citation needed]. Other illustrators have been used for foreign-language editions.
Osborne's writing career began "one day, out of the blue"[3] when she wrote Run, Run As Fast As You Can in 1982, which she has said is semi-autobiographical, as she stated: "The girl was a lot like me and many of the incidents in the story were similar to happenings in my childhood."[3] The book served as the starting point for Osborne's writing career; her early work received mixed reviews.[4][5] Her work includes young adult novels, picture books, retellings of mythology and fairy tales, biographies, mysteries, a six-part series of the Odyssey, a book of American Tall Tales, and a book for young readers about major world religions.
The idea for the series came when Penguin Random House asked Osborne to start writing a series of children's books.[6] Osborne knew from the beginning that she wanted to include time travel,[6] and the idea for the treehouse as the means of time travel came to her when she and her husband saw one while on a walk in the forest in Pennsylvania.[6]
Osborne says that she can work on Magic Tree House up to 12 hours a day and seven days a week[7] and has used space at shared office space, The Writer's Room.[8] She has modeled her writing after Hemingway by trying to be simple and direct[7] and is "noted for writing clear, lively, well-paced prose in both her stories and her informational books."[2]
Jack is the older brother, who is known for his love of books and learning, an attribute Osborne says connects her to him.[10] He tends to be cautious.[11] According to the original illustrations by Sal Murdocca, Jack has brown hair, wears red glasses, and is taller than Annie.[12]
Annie is the younger sister, who is known for her bravery, impulsive decisions, and caring for the people and animals around her.[10] According to the original illustrations by Sal Murdocca, Annie is depicted as having medium-length blonde hair, often worn in double braids, and bangs.[12]
Osborne served two separate terms as president of the Authors Guild and also chaired its Children's Book Committee.[2] She has since traveled extensively in the states and throughout the world, visiting schools and speaking on issues related to reading and books. In 2011, she attended the Tokyo International Film Festival for the premiere of the Magic Tree House anime film and visited schools in the tsunami-hit area of Japan.[17] The film grossed 5.7 million dollars; Osborne donated all proceeds into her educational works.[18]
She was profiled on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams for her continued efforts to give children books while on a Magic Tree House-themed tour bus.[18] She spoke of the pressure she feels as an author that children look up to, "for a child to value someone who writes books is so extraordinary."[18]
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Magic Tree House series in 2012, Osborne created a Magic Tree House Classroom Adventures Program, through which she aims to inspire children to read and love reading[19] while helping them to read at grade level by the end of 3rd grade.[18] The program is free of charge and provides a set of online educational resources for teachers and allows for Title 1 schools to apply for free Magic Tree House books.[19] Under Classroom Adventures, Osborne, in partnership with the First Book organization in Washington, D.C., has donated hundreds of thousands of Magic Tree House books to underserved schools.[20]
The Magic Tree House brand has expanded into other forms. A musical adaptation, Magic Tree House: The Musical, was created by Will Osborne and Randy Court based on Christmas in Camelot and premiered in September 2007.[21] Osborne hoped that it would have appeal to both kids and adults, like The Lion King or Mary Poppins.[21] The musical has toured nationally[21][22] and had a cast album.[23]
In 2011, Will Osborne collaborated with New Orleans composer Allen Toussaint and Ain't Misbehavin' co-creator Murray Horwitz to write A Night in New Orleans, a musical adaptation of A Good Night for Ghosts about the life of Louis Armstrong which features an ensemble cast and live jazz band. It premiered in 2012 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and was shown free to Newark 4th grade students.[25]
Magic Tree House Kids Shows are theatrical adaptations of select titles in the Magic Tree House series designed specifically for kids' performances.[26] To date, children's shows have been created by husband and wife playwright and composer team Randy Courts and Jenny Laird[27] in collaboration with Will Osborne based on Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn, Pirates Past Noon, A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time,[27] and A Night in New Orleans. Stage Fright on a Summer Night, based on the life of William Shakespeare, premiered at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in October 2017.[22]
The animated film Magic Tree House (マジックツリーハウス, Majikku Tsurī Hausu), produced by Media Factory, premiered in Japan in October 2011[28] and was released there on January 7, 2012.[29]
During World War II, shortly before D-Day, Jack and Annie must rescue Kathleen from behind enemy lines. It features the first time they have had to deal with a situation using their own talents, without help from magic.
The Magic Tree House Fact Trackers (formerly called Magic Tree House Research Guides) are non-fiction companions to the fiction books written by Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne, and Natalie Pope Boyce, which provide more in-depth information on topics featured in the series.[38] They were first released in 2000 by Scholastic and Random House. As of January 2022,[update] 44 have been published. The first two Fact Trackers were published in August 2000 as companions for the first two stories. In 2008, book #39, Dark Day in the Deep Sea, and its fact tracker, #17, Sea Monsters, were the first story and fact tracker to be published simultaneously.
The wind started to blow. . . and a new magical journey unfolds when the tree house lands in Mongolia, Jack and Annie can hear the drum beat of horses hoofs. The little horses of Mongolia are returning from near extinction and the kids get to meet the people who take care of them.
Classroom Adventures Program
Mary Pope Osborne's own literacy program is a Gift of Time to teachers who have inspired and supported her. Mary offers free downloadable resources including a Curriculum Guide and Lesson Plans for every book and nonfiction Fact Tracker in the series! The program also provides a Gift of Books opportunity for Title 1 schools.
MAGIC TREE HOUSE ON STAGE
Mary and Will Osborne have created musical adaptations of the MTH books available for licensing by both professional theatres and tours as well as production by schools and community theatres. This new website includes details, song samples, perusal scripts, and more for each of the original MTH shows!
Annie bothers me less than does Jack. Annie at least seems to show more respect for the creatures and people that they meet in their travels. But still without Jack to ground her, I think I would find her naivety too saccharine.
The titular tree house belongs to Morgan le Fey, who in these tales appears as a magical librarian and is thwarted by Merlin. This reversal of the Arthurian tales intrigues me. It was at first jarring, but it makes me question why Morgan is reviled in Arthurian tales while Merlin is revered. I have not read enough of the source material (being more generally familiar from modern retellings and appearances) to know the answer to this. Perhaps Morgan was hated for good reason. Perhaps she was hated because she was a woman with power who did not yield to a male king.
I know, what am I thinking offering a Magic Tree House review to the internet? Magic Tree House books have been around for generations. Their popularity has never wavered over the years. Countless kids have discovered a love of reading because of these books. This series is an American institution, for crying out loud.
There are some really great things about the Magic Tree House series. The books are the perfect length to break up over several days. However, the chapters are short enough to read several in one sitting. The story lines are told from a single point of view. The plot is linear and clear. There are only a few characters in each book. These are all things I look for when choosing a book to read aloud to young kids.
The main characters are a brother and sister named Jack and Annie who are in elementary school. One of the things I like about the books is that they are so nice to each other. It can be tough to find books that model a consistently positive sibling relationship.
The characters in the stories are brave. They know the power of books and knowledge. The kids are good problem solvers. They frequently defend the weak. Jack and Annie have a lot of characteristics I would like my kids to have, too.
Second, I dislike that in every book Jack and Annie sneak out of their house and do not tell their parents where they are going. In many of the books the kids leave the house in the middle of the night while their parents are sleeping. The author makes a point of hammering home that these elementary aged children are actively choosing to keep secrets from their parents.
So, to read or not to read? They are not my favorite to read aloud, but there is nothing in them that would cause me to blacklist them. We have read aloud a few of them that the kids have picked up at the library, and I pepper in my own commentary about how it is never appropriate to leave the house without telling me, and point out what are true historical facts and what is myth.
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