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Overview

Illus. in black-and-white. Jack and Annie travel back in time to medieval England for an adventure inside a storybook castle, from feasting hall to dreadful dungeon.  

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.

  • Magic Tree House Series
    Magic Tree House Series

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Children's Literature
This is a book for beginning readers who want to escape into the world of fantasy and science fiction. The Knight at Dawn is the second in Mary Pope Osborne's "Magic Tree House" series about fact-seeking Jack and his impetuous sister Annie who travel to the time of knights and castles. History and customs of the era come alive against a foreground of adventure, mystery and suspense.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679824121
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 2/28/1993
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 30,028
  • Age range: 6 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: 310L (what's this?)
  • Series: Magic Tree House Series, #2
  • Product dimensions: 5.24 (w) x 7.61 (h) x 0.24 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne has channeled a lifelong love of exploration and travel into one of the most popular children’s book series of the past two decades. With her fantastic Magic Tree House series, Mary Pope Osborne keeps the good times rolling for kids all over the world.

Biography

Ever since 1992, Mary Pope Osborne has been thrilling kids everywhere with her delightfully exciting Magic Tree House series. The globetrotting escapades of time travelers Jack and Annie are brimming with adventure and magic (not to mention some subtly placed lessons on history and geography). With a life like Osborne's, it's only natural that she would be capable of bringing such wondrous stories to life.

Osborne was brought up in a military family, and her parents' work led to a lifestyle marked by constant change. "By the time I was 15," she says on randomhouse.com, "I had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina." While many kids would probably feel disoriented by such constant change, Osborne wouldn't have had it any other way. "Moving was never traumatic for me, but staying in one place was. When my dad finally retired to a small town in North Carolina, I nearly went crazy with boredom. I craved the adventure and changing scenery of our military life."

And adventure is exactly what Osborne got! After college, she embarked on a series of daring treks across the globe that would surely give Jack and Annie a run for their money. "For a while I camped in a cave on the island of Crete," she said. "Then I joined up with a small band of European young people heading to 'The East.' We traveled through 11 Asian countries and nearly lost our lives, first in an earthquake in northern Afghanistan and then in a riot in Kabul."

Following an illness she contracted in Katmandu, Osborne returned home to the U.S. trying her hand at a vast variety of jobs: window dresser, medical assistant, Russian travel consultant, waitress, bartender, and an assistant editor at a children's magazine. Although Osborne had unconsciously moved closer toward her ultimate career, she says that her first attempts at writing seemed to come without warning. "One day, out of the blue, I began writing a story about an 11-year-old girl in the South," she recalls. "The girl was a lot like me, and many of the incidents in the story were similar to happenings in my childhood...it became a young adult novel called Run, Run Fast as You Can. Finally, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up."

She sure did! Since then, Osborne has penned a slew of stories, including picture books, chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels; but she is indisputably best known for her wonderful Magic Tree House books, a happy hodge-podge of history and mystery with a time travel theme kids find irresistible. No doubt inspired by Osborne's own highly adventurous life, these exiting expeditions have attracted droves of children and pleased educators by combining compulsively readable storytelling with useful facts about geography and history.

As was written of the series in Children's Literature, "Mary Pope Osborne provides nicely paced excitement for young readers, and there's just enough information mixed in so that children will take away some historical fact along with a sense of accomplishment at having completed a chapter book." As much as Osborne has certainly pleased her readers (not to mention their parents and teachers), perhaps no one is quite as pleased as she. "I'm one of those very lucky people who absolutely loves what they do for a living," she explained. "There is no career better suited to my eccentricities, strengths, and passions than that of a children's book author."

Good To Know

A few fascinating outtakes from our interview with Osborne:

"One of the most defining experiences of my life was traveling overland in an old van through the Middle East and Asia in the early 1970's. One day, when a small group of us were camped in a remote part of northern Afghanistan, we saw a woman riding horseback over the sloping plain. Her long brown hair floated on the wind and she wore a bright gypsy-style dress. When she got closer, I realized she was one of my roommates from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill! Though I didn't even know she'd left the U.S.—and she didn't know I was in Afghanistan, we weren't that surprised to come upon each other. That says a lot about the times we were living in then."

"After 26 years of living in New York City, my husband Will and I now spend most of our time in Northwestern Connecticut, living in a house that overlooks a lake. We kayak and hike with our two Norfolk terriers, Joey and Mr. Bezo. Will's learning Italian, and I've been working with a tutor for two years trying to understand Dante's Divine Comedy. One of my biggest hobbies is reading philosophy and theology. We spend lots of time, of course, on our work. After writing three shows for the Morehead Planetarium in North Carolina, Will's writing a musical based on the Magic Tree House series. I'm writing book # 38 in the series. I also spend a lot of time with my sister Natalie Pope Boyce who works on the Magic Tree House Research Guides. Natalie and our nephews and some of our best friends live nearby in the Berkshires Hills of Massachusetts, so we're up there a lot, too. My only complaint is there is not enough time to do all I want to do. For instance, I'd love to take drawing classes and I'd love to paint the lake we're living on. And I'd love to bird watch and become a better cook and learn about classical music. Maybe sometime in the future...."

    1. Hometown:
      Goshen, Connecticut
    1. Date of Birth:
      May 20, 1949
    2. Place of Birth:
      Fort Sill, Oklahoma
    1. Education:
      B.A., University of North Carolina
    2. Website:
      http://www.marypopeosborne.com

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 30, 2011

    Sort of like it, too short

    Not the best book in the world, but like it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 10, 2012

    I looovvvveeeeeeemth

    I think these books are great every day I ask my mom for anotherone of these books

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2011

    amazing

    awsome love it

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  • Posted April 8, 2010

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    My daughters Favorite!

    My daughter came home from 1st grade one day to tell me that she was the only kid in her class that did not own a magic treehouse book! I had no idea what they were, so off to Barnes and Noble we went! I had no idea there were so many of them, and she had already read quite a few that she had checked out from the school library. They are entertaining and I love anything that fosters the love of reading in my children. My son is doing his best to learn to read so he can begin reading these books as well!

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  • Posted July 4, 2009

    Magic Tree House #2

    I am really enjoying reading this series to my son at night. Normally 1 chapter but sometimes 2... I only wish I could read in a car because that would help make the long drive go quickly plus it can give our portable DVD player a break... and it is a lot cheaper (books vs DVD player cost).

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 6, 2009

    It's informative

    I like the fact that it teaches about castles and knights.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    this book is awsome

    i love magic tree house books

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 29, 2002

    One of the best books I have read.

    Jack and Annie are in the castle taking in the sights when they are spotted by gaurdsmen wearing dresses. Great suspense and edge of the seat mystery. Read this great book and find out if the mysterious knight can help Jack and Annie get out of this one.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 11, 2002

    It is the best book on the planet

    Annie and Jack are in a castle read the book to find out if they get cought.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 23, 2011

    Duskpaw

    Melts into the inky blackness of night with a flex of her claws.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2011

    Shadowpaw

    Okay *runs off*

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 18, 2011

    NOTICE

    Lost apprentice

    Apprenticed to: Silversight






    ( contact me at german shepard)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2011

    Star to spark

    Where?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 9, 2011

    Sparkfoot

    Again, oookay.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2011

    Stormsong

    Sparkfoot! Why are people coming here?

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  • Posted October 23, 2011

    Boring

    This book was boring .It was not exicting

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2011

    MOST RETARDED BOOK EVER!!!!!

    Don't buy, it's a wast of money.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 17, 2011

    Ehhhh

    It looked like a good book when i sampled it but when i bought it it was horrible dont buy it please

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  • Posted September 8, 2011

    Dobett Do better

    More avncher

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 26, 2011

    stupid

    stupid. a wast of money

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