Illus. in black-and-white. Jack and Annie are in deep trouble
when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of desert
islands, secret maps, hidden gold--and ruthless pirates! Will Jack
and Annie discover a buried treasure? Will they find out the
identity of the mysterious M? Or will they walk the plank?
關於作者:
Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she
was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four
different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. After
graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
the early 1970''s, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the
first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of
Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young
people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian
countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and
Nepal. She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a
travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant -- all
before becoming an author! Now she is the author of many
highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade
biographies, and young adult novels. In February 1993, Mary
was elected the 27th president of the Author''s Guild, the oldest,
most established organization for writers in the United
States.
Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in
Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania. They
own a terrier named Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary''s desk
every day while she writes!