Mary Pope Osborne
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."
Source
Books
- Mummies and Pyramids (Magic Tree House Research Guide) 2001
- Polar bears past bedtime 1998
- The Magic School Bus In The Haunted Museum 1995
- Night of the New Magicians 2006
- Haunted castle on Hallows Eve 2003
- Twisters and Other Terrible Storms 2003
- The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants 1996
- Winter of the ice wizard 2004
- Monday with a Mad Genius 2007
- The gray-eyed goddess 2003
- Abe Lincoln at last! 2011
- Summer of the sea serpent 2004
- Pirates 2001
- Dingoes at Dinnertime 2000
- Shadow of the Shark (Magic Tree House #53) 2015
- Stage Fright on a Summer Night 2002
- MSB Takes A Moonwalk (Msb Science Reader) 2004
- Knights and Castles 2000
- Magic Tree House 2002
- Ups And Downs 1997
- The One-Eyed Giant 2002
- A good night for ghosts 2009
- Favorite medieval tales 1998