by Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679890621
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«Hour of the Olympics» is Mary Pope Osborne's children's adventure and time-travel novel, published in paperback (96 pages, in English).
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to ancient Greece, where they must recover a lost story. There they attend the first Olympic Games and discover that girls are forbidden to watch them: while Jack watches the competitions, Annie tries to find a way to attend.
Sixteenth installment of the Magic Tree House series, illustrated by Sal Murdocca and originally published in 1998.
Suitable for early chapter-book readers, ages 6 to 9, interested in history and fantasy.
Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. She had 3 other siblings, and moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will.
