by Mary Pope Osborne · Scholastic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780545382663
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«Summer of the Sea Serpent» is Mary Pope Osborne's children's fantasy novel, published by Scholastic in paperback (110 pages, in English).
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the selkies, creatures able to change from seal to human form, to find an enchanted sword that Merlin has asked them to retrieve. On the mission they are accompanied by the young sorcerer Teddy, and they face the Queen Spider and the underwater caves before achieving their goal.
The book belongs to the Magic Tree House series: installment 31 and third of the Merlin Missions subseries. The original story appeared in 2004; this edition is from 2011.
Aimed at children around 8-9 years old who are beginning to read chapters on their own and enjoy fantastic adventures.
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.
