The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand
years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an
old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil
Dragon King.
內容簡介:
Jack and Annie set off to find an original copy of an ancient
Chinese myth. Armed only with their magic library cards, they must
take on a book-burning emperor. But with the help of a scholar and
a silk weaver, they triumph again.
關於作者:
Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she
was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four
different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina.
After graduating from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in the early 1970''s, Mary traveled all over Europe, and
spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the
island of Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young
people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian
countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and
Nepal.
She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel
agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant -- all before
becoming an author! Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed
picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and
young adult novels.
In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the
Author''s Guild, the oldest, most established organization for
writers in the United States.
Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in
Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania. They own a
terrier named Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary''s desk every
day while she writes!