Mary Pope Osborne was born into adventure. Her dad was in the army, so every year or two her family would move to a different state, or even a different country! By the time she was fifteen, Mary had lived in thirteen different houses and gone to eight different schools!
Writing children's books was a perfect career for Mary because she could still travel all over the world — but be back home in time for dinner. She has written almost a hundred books, including biographies, mysteries, picture books, novels and retellings of fairy tales and world mythology.
The books that have taken Mary to the most places are the Magic Tree House series. With Jack and Annie, she has traveled through time, from the prehistoric land of dinosaurs to the imaginary world of Camelot. But one of the greatest adventures of Mary's writing life is the creative journey she takes with her readers, meeting them in person in schools and bookstores and reading the wonderful stories and letters they send. This, Mary says, is true magic."
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Children's fiction, Fiction, Juvenile literature, Juvenile fiction, Magic, Time travel, Magic, fiction, Tree houses, Geschwister, Abenteuer, Baumhaus, Bruder, Junge, Mädchen, Schwester, Time travel, fiction, verborgen, versteckt, Zeitreise, History, Kinderbuch ab 8 Jahren, Tree houses, fiction, Brothers and sisters, Spanish language materials, Ficción juvenilPlaces
United States, Italy, Japan, New York (N.Y.), Arctic regions, China, France, Great Britain, India, Ireland, New York, Pompeii (Extinct city), West (U.S.), Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Egypt, England, Europe, Great Plains, Greece, Irland, Kansas, Massachusetts, MoonPeople
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), George Washington (1732-1799), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Odysseus King of Ithaca (Mythological character), Alexander dem Große, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Christopher Columbus, Clara Barton (1821-1912), Florence Nightingale, George Washington, Gregory Lady (1852-1932), Harry Houdini, Jack and Annie, Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), Jesus Christ, King Arthur, Kit Carson (1809-1868), Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), Merlin (Legendary character), Slim Cooley, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Time
Altertum, Mittelalter, 19th century, 20th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 17th century, 18th century, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Eruption, 79, Revolution, 1775-1783, Urzeit, 1000-1765, 1421-1737, 1492-1559, 1526-1765, 1740-1789, 1789-1815, 1865-1898, 1870-1940, 1895, 1898-1951, 19. Jahrhundert, 1906, 1912, 1929ID Numbers
- OLID: OL2704158A
- GoodReads: 22504
- ISNI: 0000000108571260
- IMDb: nm2057748
- Library of Congress Names: n80010098
- VIAF: 44636175
- Wikidata: Q13410712
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q13410712
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- (mei) Ao, si ben
- Osborne, Mary Pope, Boyce, Natalie Pope
- mary pope osborne
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