The Magic Tree House is a series of children’s books written by American author Mary Pope Osborne.

  • Thanksgiving on Thursday
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.

  • High tide in Hawaii
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel in their Magic Tree House back to a Hawaiian island of long ago where they make friends, learn how to surf, and encounter a tsunami.

  • Christmas in Camelot
    Mary Pope Osborne

    On Christmas Eve, Jack and Annie's tree house transports them to King Arthur's castle at Camelot, where they undertake a quest to the castle of the Otherworld.

  • Haunted castle on Hallows Eve
    Mary Pope Osborne

    In their magic treehouse, Jack and Annie are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.

  • Summer of the sea serpent
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek a magical sword for Merlin.

  • Winter of the ice wizard
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie, joined by Teddy and Kathleen (from earlier books), travel in the Magic Tree House to a land of snow where the Ice Wizard has captured Morgan and Merlin. The four friends must find the Ice Wizard's missing eye - or is it really his heart that is missing? Jack and Annie are joined by Teddy and Kathleen as they travel to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds, where they search for the eye of the Ice Wizard and attempt to help Merlin and Morgan.

  • Carnival at candlelight
    Mary Pope Osborne

    While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.

  • Season of the sandstorms
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.

  • Night of the new magicians
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.

  • Blizzard of the blue moon
    Mary Pope Osborne

    The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn. In this exciting new Merlin Mission, Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will that be enough to help a city that faces so many troubles?

  • Dragon of the red dawn
    Mary Pope Osborne

    When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.

  • Monday with a mad genius
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.

  • Dark day in the deep sea
    Mary Pope Osborne

    When eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, join a group of nineteenth-century explorers aboard the H.M.S. Challenger, they learn about the ocean, solve the mystery of its fabled sea monster, and gain compassion for their fellow creatures.

  • Eve of the Emperor penguin
    Mary Pope Osborne

    The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.

  • Moonlight on the magic flute
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762 where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.

  • A good night for ghosts
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the King of Jazz.

  • Leprechaun in late winter
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.

  • A ghost tale for Christmas time
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol.

  • A crazy day with cobras
    Mary Pope Osborne

    The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.

  • Dogs in the dead of night
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.

  • Abe Lincoln at last!
    Mary Pope Osborne

    The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.

  • A perfect time for pandas
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.

  • Stallion by starlight
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion.

  • Hurry up, Houdini!
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Join Jack and Annie as they as they meet one of the world's most famous illusionists - Harry Houdini!

  • High time for heroes
    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie are magically transported to mid-1800's Thebes where they are saved from a dangerous accident by Florence Nightingale!