Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House is one of the most durable early-reader engines in print, and the CrossBinge entry collects a broad slice of it alongside the 2012 animated film. Jack and Annie climb into a tree house stocked with books, point at a picture, and get whisked off to ancient volcanoes, the high seas, or a dinosaur-haunted prehistory.
What sets it apart is how openly it doubles as a syllabus. The fiction is gentle and formulaic by design, and the nonfiction Research Guides (the Space and survival companions here) turn each adventure into a primer on history and science. It is comfort-read scaffolding for kids learning to read chapter books on their own.
The span is modest, mostly books with one film, but the books are the point.
The Magic Tree House franchise spans 12 books, 1 films in the CrossBinge catalog.
Films
Books
- Mummies in the Morning
- Sunset of the Sabertooth
- Magic tree house survival guide
- Vacation Under the Volcano
- Space (Magic Tree House Rsrch Gdes(R))
- Dingoes at Dinnertime
- High Tide in Hawaii
- Abe Lincoln at last!
- A Perfect Time For Pandas
- Shadow of the Shark (Magic Tree House #53)
- A Big Day for Baseball (Magic Tree House (R))
- Hurricane heroes in Texas