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Summary: I like the book
Review: I like this book because it has a tyrannosaurus rex and the pterodon and a triceratops and Anatosauruses and when the wind picked up and got the treehouse spining faster and faster and made them travel through time.
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Summary: It was good
Review: I love these books.But the only thing is the [unsafe] Annie!! She is [unsafe] b/c she pets predators.And she has no idea what on earth shes doing. Other than that, they are educational and good for kids. They educate in a fun way.
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Summary: Great book to start your 2nd graders reading on their own
Review: I thought my son was ready to try reading on his own and picked this book more or less at random. He read it in one sitting and asked for more. I bought him the second and third books in the series and he read them in the same day. I bought the rest of the series and had to ration them out one book a day or he would have read them all at once. Now he's a regular littlebook worm and turns off the TV and puts away his toys every time I give him a new book.
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Summary: Dinosaurs Before Dark
Review: I was looking for a series to start reading to my 7 yr old son so bought this book to try out the Magic Treehouse series. He thoroughly enjoyed the story and asked if we could order the next one, which is always a good sign. I read this to him and now he is trying to read it himself.I also enjoyed the story and had fun reading it to him!
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Summary: I won't be buying any more in this series!
Review: I've been having such a good time reading "Junie B. Jones" to my daughter that I decided to branch out a bit. I picked this up thinking a series with over 20 books has got to be good, right? WRONG! The boy is a coldly logical "scientist" who scorns his sister's imagination. The girl is a touchy-feely dingbat who rushes up to a carnivorous Pteranadon because it looks nice. And of course, it must be intelligent too-- she can "feel" it! One reviewer referred to the girl as a good role-model. I am apalled. What the book said to me was that science and rationality is for boys, emotion is for girls, and it's okay to walk up to any strange beast (or person?) as long as it looks "nice". The science content is mediocre at best, the dialogue is lousy, and the story not very interesting. It IS a fun concept, and maybe it gets better in later books, but I don't intend to find out.
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Summary: Read better books after this step
Review: In this new series, Mary Pope Osborne takes her readers on a wonderful journey into the past. Jack and Annie stumble across a tree house filled with books while palying near their house. When Jack picks up a book about dinosaurs and begins to read it, the children are swept away to the distant past where dinosaurs ruled the world. The children meet such dinosaurs as the Pteranodon and the dreaded Tyrannosaurus Rex! Also, the children discover a special item that proves to them that another person has also travelled back in time just like them. But who is this mysterious person? Throughout the story, the reader is given little fact about dinosaurs to help increase their knowledge.
Both educational and enjoyable, Dinosaurs Before Dark moves at a rapid pace keeping the attention of the reader and wanting just "one more chapter!" The illustrations are excellent as well and blend very nicely with the story. Definitely a fun and easy story for beginning readers and equally fun for parents to read with their children.
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Summary: Dinosaurs Before Dark
Review: Jack and Annie are walking home from Frog Creek when Annie tells Jack that there is a monster at Frog Creek. They took a short cut home through the forest and they come upon a magic treehouse. Jack found a book about dinosaurs in the treehouse and opens it. Jack gets what he wishes for and ends up meeting dinosaurs in a different world. Annie becomes friends with some of the dinosaurs. Jack finds a gold medallion next to some Duck Bills which start bellowing at him. Jack meets a T-Rex which almost ate him and takes a ride on a Pteranodon. Jack keeps notes about all of the dinosaurs he meets. Eventually they end up back at the treehouse. It is the same day and the same time as when they left.
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Summary: Dinosaurs Before Dark
Review: Jack and Annie are walking home from Frog Creek when Annie tells Jack that there is a monster at Frog Creek. They took a short cut home through the forest and they come upon a magic treehouse. Jack found a book about dinosaurs in the treehouse and opens it. Jack gets what he wishes for and ends up meeting dinosaurs in a different world. Annie becomes friends with some of the dinosaurs. Jack finds a gold medallion next to some Duck Bills which start bellowing at him. Jack meets a T-Rex which almost ate him and takes a ride on a Pteranodon. Jack keeps notes about all of the dinosaurs he meets. Eventually they end up back at the treehouse. It is the same day and the same time as when they left.
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Summary: Dinosourus before dark
Review: Major hype about dinosaurs has come and gone, but some books seam to be here to stay. My 6 years old daughter can't have enough of it. Mary Osborne has got it right: the mixture of magic, adventure and facts that pleases both children and parents; and both a girl and a boy protagonist, allowing children of both sexes an opportunity to identify with main characters in the story. So what else but go and check out the other titles in Magic Tree House Series...
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Summary: This is the best book ever!
Review: My 4-year old received 2 of the Magic Treehouse books for Christmas this year. I looked at them and thought there was no way he'd be able to comprehend a book with chapters. But I read through it myself and found it an easy read with a fairly simple storyline. So I started with this, book #1, and read it to him. We were able to read it in one sitting, and he followed it just fine. He was so excited that I brought him to the bookstore to pick out a new Magic Treehouse book today. He asked "will Jack and Annie be in this book too?"
He doesn't really read books himself, but as a read-together book, this was wonderful. A great intro to books with more words than pictures. I plan to start collecting this series for him and reading them together at least once a week (if I could afford to buy one a day I would do that).
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