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''[[The Magic Treehouse]]'' is a successful series of children's books written by Mary Pope Osbourne. There are 48 books in the series so far, not counting the research guides that go along with them. The books are about two kids from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, siblings Jack and Annie. In most of the books, Morgan le Fay orders them to go on missions through time and all around the world to solve ancient riddles, save ancient stories, and become Master Librarians. That was for the first 28 of the books, and the next series was about Jack and Annie going on Merlin's Missions, traveling to places like Camelot. The books teach kids about history and the different cultures that Jack and Annie visit.
 
There's also a [[Useful Notes/Japan|Japanese]] adaptation with [[Manga|manga]] [[Contemptible Cover|illustrations]]. They all contain paper dolls of Jack and Annie with outfits corresponding to the stories. The first 28 volumes were published into 14 Japanese volumes, two stories to a book. After that, each book was published individually. There was also an anime movie based on the book series.
 
Research guides about the settings of the books have been written for 22 of them.
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* [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]]: Most of the series
* [[American Civil War]]: ''Civil War On Sunday'' and the future ''Abe Lincoln at Last''
* [[The American Revolution]]: ''Revolutionary War On Wednesday''
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* [[Downer Ending]]: ''Vacation Under The Volcano'' takes place in a nice peaceful town called Pompeii...
* [[Edutainment]]
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: ''Dinosaurs Before Dark'', the very first book.
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: ''Dingoes At Dinnertime'', had Jack and Annie meeting up with a kangaroo and taking care of her joey.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: ''Tigers at Twilight'' and ''Good Morning Gorilla'' had monkeys.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins]]: ''Eve of the Emperor Penguins'', and the titular penguin Penny who lives in Camelot.
* [[Everything's Squishier Withwith Cephalopods]]: ''Dark Day In The Deep Sea'' has this with a Kraken.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: Subverted in ''Stage Fright On A Summer's Night''. The dancing bear's actually one of the nicer characters.
** And averted in ''Polar Bears Past Bedtime'' with a mother polar bear and her adorable cubs.
* [[Exact Words]]: In ''Blizzard of the Blue Moon'', Jack and Annie need to call out the name of a unicorn known as 'Divine Flower of Rome'. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, neither of them knew that they were supposed to say his name in Latin--which is Dianthus--and thus got them into a bit of trouble later on.}}
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** [[The Virgin Queen|Elizabeth I]] and [[William Shakespeare]] -- ''Stage Fright On A Summer's Night''
** [[George Washington]] -- ''Revolutionary War On Wednesday''
** [[Leonardo Dada Vinci]] -- ''Monday With A Mad Genius''
** [[Plato]] -- ''Hour Of The Olympics''
** [[William Shakespeare]] -- ''Stage Fright On A Summer's Night''
** [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] -- ''Moonlight On The Magic Flute''
** [[Louis Armstrong]] -- ''A Good Night For Ghosts''
** [[Charles Dickens (Creator)|Charles Dickens]]-- ''A Ghost Tale For Christmas Time''
** [[Thomas Edison]], [[Alexander Graham Bell]], [[Louise Pasteur]], [[Gustave Eiffel]] -- ''Night of the New Magicians''
* [[Horny Vikings]]: ''Viking Ships At Sunrise''
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* [[Mummy]]: ''Mummies in the Morning''
* [[The Musical]]: Information for the curious [http://mthmusical.com/#/home here]. It involved [[Camelot]].
* [[Ninja|Ninjas]]s: ''Night of the Ninjas''
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Averted. It seems this way as we are constantly told that Jack is 7 and Annie is 6. But in ''Winter of the Ice Wizard'', Annie states that she's 9 and Jack is already 10 which means at most 3 years have past since that time.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Whenever something bad happens, poor Jack will be thinking this.
* [[Olympic Games]]: The original ones, natch.
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** [[Pirate Parrot]]: Also seen. {{spoiler|Was really Morgan le Fay keeping an eye on the kids.}}
* [[Ravens and Crows]]: The subject on ''Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve''.
* [[Rhymes Onon a Dime]]: The poems and magic spells that are used in the book all rhyme.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: The HUMONGOUS Sea Serpent in ''Summer of the Sea Serpent''.
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Jack and Annie are a sibling example.
* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: Somehow Annie is able to communicate with animals, be it a pterodon or a raven.
* [[Spiders Are Scary]]: To Annie they are. And it didn't help that in ''Summer of the Sea Serpent'' they needed help from the Spider Queen...
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* [[Tomboy]]: Annie is more adventurous than her brother and is defensive of anyone or anything being threatened.
* [[Treehouse of Fun]]: Treehouse of MAGIC!
* [[Victorian Britain]]: ''A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time''. [[Charles Dickens (Creator)|Charles Dickens]] is a character.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Spiders?]]: Annie can go through just about anything...but has a CRIPPLING fear of spiders. Shown prominently in ''Summer of the Sea Serpent.''
 
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[[Category:The Magic Treehouse]]
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