Magic Tree House

Time-traveling literary series

Magic Tree House is a series of children's books by Mary Pope Osborne featuring siblings Jack and Annie who discover a tree house filled with books that transport them through time and space.

The series blends history and fantasy, with each adventure teaching readers about a different historical period or place: My son devoured every Magic Tree House book in second grade.

Related

early readers · young readers · time travel · time machine · historical fiction · dinosaurs · knights · pirates · ancient Egypt · reading · Pennsylvania · Morgan le Fay · missions · history · research · siblings · ladder · spinning

Opposites
target audience/reading level

Magic Tree Houseadult fiction

Books targeting grown readers

literary fiction · War and Peace · Ulysses · Infinite Jest · Game of Thrones

genre/content approach

Magic Tree HouseRamona Quimby

Junie B. Jones · realistic fiction · Judy Blume · Beverly Cleary · slice-of-life

Family

magic, tree, house, magical, magically, magician, mage, trees, treed

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G