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Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-4: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn, Mummies in the Morning, and Pirates Past Noon Paperback – Box set, May 29, 2001
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Reading age8 - 9 years
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Print length80 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherRandom House Books for Young Readers
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Publication dateMay 29, 2001
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| Collect all of the Magic Tree House boxed sets! | Books in this set include: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn, Mummies in the Morning, and Pirates Past Noon | Books in this set include: Night of the Ninjas, Afternoon on the Amazon, Sunset of the Sabertooth, and Midnight on the Moon | Books in this set include: Dolphins at Daybreak, Ghost Town at Sundown, Lions at Lunchtime, and Polar Bears Past Bedtime | Books in this set include: Vacation Under the Volcano, Day of the Dragon King, Viking Ships at Sunrise, and Hour of the Olympics | Books in this set include: Books in this set include: Tonight on the Titanic, Buffalo Before Breakfast, Tigers at Twilight, and Dingoes at Dinnertime |
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| Travel to more far-away places with Jack and Annie! | Books in this set include: Civil War on Sunday, Revolutionary War on Wednesday, Twister on Tuesday, and Earthquake in the Early | Books in this set include: Stage Fright on a Summer Night, Good Morning, Gorillas, Thanksgiving on Thursday, and High Tide in Hawaii | Books in this Merlin Missions set include: Christmas in Camelot, Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve, Summer of the Sea Serpent, Winter of the Ice Wizard | Merlin Mission Books 1–25 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time ever! | This boxed set is the ultimate gift for any Magic Tree House fan. With a total of twenty-eight adventures, kids will never get tired of traveling the world and completing missions with their new friends Jack and Annie! |
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MARY POPE OSBORNE is the author of the New York Times number one bestselling Magic Tree House series as well as coauthor of the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker series, along with her husband, Will, and her sister Natalie Pope Boyce.
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated over 200 children’s trade and textbooks. He currently teaches children’s illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated over 200 children’s trade and textbooks. He currently teaches children’s illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
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- ASIN : 0375813659
- Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition (May 29, 2001)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 80 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780375813658
- ISBN-13 : 978-0375813658
- Reading age : 8 - 9 years
- Lexile measure : 240L
- Grade level : 1 - 4
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.93 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2020
I got these for my 5 year old. He’s ahead of his kindergarten class, reading at a 1st/2nd grade level so I thought I should get something a bit more challenging to stretch his mind and decided to search for some beginner chapter books. I read many reviews as always before purchasing and chose this book series 1-4 and it was an amazing price! Very happy about that!
So I had my son read it and he LOVED it. I told him 2 pages and then bed time. He asked to read another page so I let him. Then he asked to finish the chapter so I let him. Then he asked to read the next chapter and I just had to stop and told him he can read more tomorrow. I’m so happy he enjoys reading this. I’m explaining punctuation and quotations and asking him questions as we go among to make sure he’s understanding what he’s reading. And he absolutely loves loves loves it. I included pictures of the pages as that’s one thing I was looking for when looking at the other reviews which I didn’t see any. So I included some for those that would like to know what they look like. Some pictures-very detailed and descriptive but some pages have no pictures which force their little brains to paint their own pictures in their minds. Simply AWESOME! I definitely will be purchasing the next set of books soon.
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I just received these today. Very quick shipping as promised.By Julie DuBois on January 8, 2020
I got these for my 5 year old. He’s ahead of his kindergarten class, reading at a 1st/2nd grade level so I thought I should get something a bit more challenging to stretch his mind and decided to search for some beginner chapter books. I read many reviews as always before purchasing and chose this book series 1-4 and it was an amazing price! Very happy about that!
So I had my son read it and he LOVED it. I told him 2 pages and then bed time. He asked to read another page so I let him. Then he asked to finish the chapter so I let him. Then he asked to read the next chapter and I just had to stop and told him he can read more tomorrow. I’m so happy he enjoys reading this. I’m explaining punctuation and quotations and asking him questions as we go among to make sure he’s understanding what he’s reading. And he absolutely loves loves loves it. I included pictures of the pages as that’s one thing I was looking for when looking at the other reviews which I didn’t see any. So I included some for those that would like to know what they look like. Some pictures-very detailed and descriptive but some pages have no pictures which force their little brains to paint their own pictures in their minds. Simply AWESOME! I definitely will be purchasing the next set of books soon.
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Not about book, very nice stories, kids love them. But! Very sorry to return, I just had to do that. If there is a contrast between the frontispiece and pages, so that is, like cute bow on a bunch of cheap newspapers.
Pluses - paperback, very nice for small hands, and that is all. Next is only contras. Tiny font, with small spacing, pages are black and white and smelly (!!! Yes, these books have an awful odour!) Paper is grayish thin stuff, mostly used for free spam, crowded in your mailbox. I know, there is a tradition of making kids books as bad and cheap as possible, and to sell them with greatest profit, but why not making a better quality! Nobody cares? Why, what's bad for you, not good for your kids, really
Pluses - paperback, very nice for small hands, and that is all. Next is only contras. Tiny font, with small spacing, pages are black and white and smelly (!!! Yes, these books have an awful odour!) Paper is grayish thin stuff, mostly used for free spam, crowded in your mailbox. I know, there is a tradition of making kids books as bad and cheap as possible, and to sell them with greatest profit, but why not making a better quality! Nobody cares? Why, what's bad for you, not good for your kids, really
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These books are okay. They are easy for my first and second graders to read, who are just transitioning into chapter books. The characters are easy to keep track of, and there are both a boy and a girl, so it is gender neutral. I also like that the stories teach us something, and can be used with the corresponding nonfiction "fact tracker" series to learn about all sorts of interesting creatures and/or historical events.
That being said, I do have a few qualms. First of all, I strongly agree with the reviewers that criticized the author/editor for letting these books be published with so many grammatical errors! Children learn by example, and reading incomplete sentences, misspelled words, proper nouns that are not capitalized, and loosely structured paragraphs makes it hard to teach proper mechanics. These books could have been phenomenal if not for the poor grammar!.....I myself debated on whether or not to use these for a while, and then decided that that I could use the errors as a jumping off point to teach some basic rules of grammar. Each day I put a couple of selections out of the book on the board, and asked the kids to fix it. We worked on ways to improve the writing, but honestly, it was a lot of extra work! I would have rather had the grammar be correct in the beginning, and then I would have been able to use the book as an example of good sentence structure.
Also, I may be old fashioned (even though I'm young), but I do not like some of the ways that the characters respond to each other, such as by saying, "Oh, don't be stupid" and things like that. I know kids talk to each other this way, but I want to build an atmosphere of mutual respect, and some things just kind of hit me as bad examples, even if I am being a bit too picky.
Honestly, I would say that I my kiddos and I enjoyed the companion Fact Tracker books a lot more than the actual Magic Tree House ones. The grammar isn't perfect, but it is a lot better, and the paragraphs are more clearly defined, so I didn't feel the need to 'correct' it for them. Since the books are nonfiction, they also fit nicely into science and history lessons, and you don't need to read the Magic Tree House books first!
In addition, I would recommend the Boxcar Children series--although these may seem a little daunting for some beginning readers to read all on their own. The chapters are a little longer and there are more words on a page, but the adventures are just an interesting, the grammar is correct, and the characters are good role models. I only wish that there were 'fact tracker' books to go along with THAT set!
In conclusion, like many other reviewers have said, these are "great books, but poorly written." I have heard that the books farther on in the series are better, and I hope that this is true...but I don't know if we will continue on to find out.
That being said, I do have a few qualms. First of all, I strongly agree with the reviewers that criticized the author/editor for letting these books be published with so many grammatical errors! Children learn by example, and reading incomplete sentences, misspelled words, proper nouns that are not capitalized, and loosely structured paragraphs makes it hard to teach proper mechanics. These books could have been phenomenal if not for the poor grammar!.....I myself debated on whether or not to use these for a while, and then decided that that I could use the errors as a jumping off point to teach some basic rules of grammar. Each day I put a couple of selections out of the book on the board, and asked the kids to fix it. We worked on ways to improve the writing, but honestly, it was a lot of extra work! I would have rather had the grammar be correct in the beginning, and then I would have been able to use the book as an example of good sentence structure.
Also, I may be old fashioned (even though I'm young), but I do not like some of the ways that the characters respond to each other, such as by saying, "Oh, don't be stupid" and things like that. I know kids talk to each other this way, but I want to build an atmosphere of mutual respect, and some things just kind of hit me as bad examples, even if I am being a bit too picky.
Honestly, I would say that I my kiddos and I enjoyed the companion Fact Tracker books a lot more than the actual Magic Tree House ones. The grammar isn't perfect, but it is a lot better, and the paragraphs are more clearly defined, so I didn't feel the need to 'correct' it for them. Since the books are nonfiction, they also fit nicely into science and history lessons, and you don't need to read the Magic Tree House books first!
In addition, I would recommend the Boxcar Children series--although these may seem a little daunting for some beginning readers to read all on their own. The chapters are a little longer and there are more words on a page, but the adventures are just an interesting, the grammar is correct, and the characters are good role models. I only wish that there were 'fact tracker' books to go along with THAT set!
In conclusion, like many other reviewers have said, these are "great books, but poorly written." I have heard that the books farther on in the series are better, and I hope that this is true...but I don't know if we will continue on to find out.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
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My four-year-old was a very early reader, and this was the first set of "big girl books" that actually interested her. While she is a wonderful reader, she is still young, and many chapter books are conceptually too advanced to be of interest to younger children. She is completely engrossed by the Magic Treehouse series and squealed "More Mary Pope Osborne books!" when I gave her her last set.
Every once in a while there is a "scary bit" that we need to discuss briefly, but on the whole, it's a safe choice for the youngest of independent readers. Be careful, though - once they're hooked on the first set, they want ALL the books!
Every once in a while there is a "scary bit" that we need to discuss briefly, but on the whole, it's a safe choice for the youngest of independent readers. Be careful, though - once they're hooked on the first set, they want ALL the books!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2017
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Our five-year old loves listening to these stories. We read them over the course of a couple of days (although he does not want to stop reading). Some parts are a little scary for our five-year old (the ninja book), but he is grasping many of the concepts and plots. I find the books a bit repetitive and hackneyed, but they are not for me. The series is about a brother and sister who live in Frog Creek, PA. They discover a treehouse in the woods near their house. The treehouse is filled with books. The treehouse takes them to the places in the books. Jack is older and more cautious. He likes to read the books. Annie is impetuous and always running ahead. Jack and Annie get to learn a little bit (and so do we) about the times and places they visit.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2018
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The paper &/or ink has an off gassing odor to it that literally makes me cough when trying to read these books to my child. I will no longer buy this series due to that. The stories are cute, but the characters are predictable in every scenario. Annie always acts w/o thinking, & her brother is the coward. IRL most people are a mix of both. Would be nice if each character were a bit more balanced in their personalities. I like the idea of the treehouse that transports them to different places. Just wish the characters were a bit more complex/developed.
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Reminded me of the magic faraway tree but not as good
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Thought my little boy would love this but he wasn't keen on it at all. Reminded me of the magic faraway tree except with less fun and child orientated.boring!!!!!!!!!!!! Didn't hold my interest either and I was trying to be enthusiastic introducing it to my son.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2013Verified Purchase
my 7 year old kids are reading these at school but the school is missing some of them so they were really happy when they got the first 4 books. It's great read, informative and well written, stories inspire their imagination.
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Great stories for boys.
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