by Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Childrens Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780375830310
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«Season of the Sandstorms» is the children's fantasy and adventure novel by Mary Pope Osborne, in hardcover (106 pages, in English).
Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission from Merlin: to help the caliph share his wisdom with the world. Guided by a magical rhyme, they cross the desert with a Bedouin tribe, discover oases, camels and ancient writings, and face sandstorms.
Published in 2005, this volume is the 34th installment of the Magic Tree House series and the sixth installment of the Merlin Missions subseries; it features illustrations by Sal Murdocca.
For children aged 7 to 10 who are starting chapter books and enjoy fantasy, history and time travel.
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.
