Dinosaurs before dark

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Title:

Dinosaurs before dark

Author:

Osborne, Mary Pope, author.

Murdocca, Sal, illustrator.

Series:

Magic tree house ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.

General Note:

Nonfiction companion: "Dinosaurs" - Magic Tree House fact tracker # 1.

Physical Description:

68 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Historical fiction.

Time-travel fiction.

Subject Term:

Annie (Fictitious character : Osborne) -- Juvenile fiction.

Jack (Fictitious character : Osborne) -- Juvenile fiction.

Dinosaurs -- Juvenile fiction.

Time travel -- Juvenile fiction.

Magic -- Juvenile fiction.

Tree houses -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Murdocca, Sal,

Publisher:

Random House,

Publication Date:

1992

ISBN:

9780679824114

9780679924111

Publication Information:

New York : Random House, c1992.

Call Number:

J MAGIC TREE # 1

Holds: Copies:

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Where did the magic tree house come from?
Before Jack and Anie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them back to the prehistoric past. Now can they do it before dark... or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?

Author Notes

Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine.

Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 1-3-- This enjoyable time-travel fantasy is a successful beginning chapter book. Jack and his younger sister find a tree house filled with books. When he wishes he could really see the Pteranodon pictured in one of them, it appears at the window. The children have been transported back to the Cretaceous period. They begin to explore and are soon threatened by a Tyrannosaurus. The Pteranodon comes to their rescue, and they figure out enough about the magic that carried them back in time to be able to use it to return home. There is plenty of suspense and magic here, and enough dinosaur information to please science buffs. Characterization is sketchy and older children will find the plot predictable, but readers just past the easy-to-read stage will find it satisfying. It should attract those who devour Ruth Chew's books. --Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

1. Into the Woods	p. 1
2. The Monster	p. 6
3. Where Is Here?	p. 13
4. Henry	p. 18
5. Gold in the Grass	p. 24
6. Dinosaur Valley	p. 33
7. Ready, Set, Go!	p. 43
8. A Giant Shadow	p. 48
9. The Amazing Ride	p. 54
10. Home Before Dark	p. 61

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