Pirates: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker)

Osborne, Mary Pope; Osborne, Will

ISBN 10: 0606213139 ISBN 13: 9780606213134

Publisher: Demco Media, 2002

Synopsis

Presents current information, photographs, and facts on pirate flags, pirate treasure, and walking the plank, and offers profiles of modern pirates.

About this title

About the Author:

WILL OSBORNE and MARY POPE OSBORNE have been married for a number of years and live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs, Joey, Mr. Bezo, and Little Bear.

Mary is the author of over one hundred books for children, including novels, picture books, biographies, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythologies. Will has worked for many years in the theater as an actor, director, and playwright. Together he and Mary have coauthored two books of Greek mythology and eight Magic Tree House(R) Fact Trackers. Will has also written a multimedia planetarium show, Magic Tree House Space Mission, and is cocreator with Randy Courts of Magic Tree House: The Musical, a full-scale Broadway-style family musical based on Christmas in Camelot.

SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.

From the Inside Flap:

What were pirates really like? How did people become pirates? Where did pirates bury their treasure?
Dig up the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide #4: Pirates, Jack and Annie's very own guide to pirates. Includes information onpirate flags, pirate treasure, real-life pirates, walking the plank, and much more!

About this edition

• Publisher: Demco Media
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0606213139
• ISBN 13: 9780606213134
• Binding: Library Binding
• Illustrator: Murdocca Sal