Carnival at Candlelight (Magic Tree House Merlin Mission Series #5)

by Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)

Overview

MERLIN HAS ASKED Jack and Annie to help on another Merlin Mission. This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy. With the help of a research book, a book of magic rhymes, and a set of mysterious instructions from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Here’s another Magic Tree House book that will engage kids with history, magic, and nonstop action from beginning to end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375830341
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/27/2006
Series:	Magic Tree House Merlin Mission Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	32,227
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.63(h) x 0.32(d)
Lexile:	590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

MARY POPE OSBORNE is the author of the New York Times number one bestselling Magic Tree House series. She and her husband, writer Will Osborne (author of Magic Tree House: The Musical), live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs. Ms. Osborne is also the coauthor of the companion Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series with Will, and with her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce.

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.

Hometown:

Goshen, Connecticut

Date of Birth:

May 20, 1949

Place of Birth:

Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Education:

B.A., University of North Carolina

Website:

http://www.marypopeosborne.com

Table of Contents

Editorial Reviews

Jack and Annie travel back in time two hundred and sixty years to Venice, Italy, in this "Magic Tree House" book. Their friends, Teddy and Kathleen, apprentices to Merlin, visited them at the oak tree house with information about this new mission. When Jack and Annie complete four missions, they will be able to make magic on their own. So, it is very important to get this mission done well especially since Venice could be destroyed during carnival time if Jack and Annie don't intervene. The duo was given a book of ten magic rhymes to help them to figure out how to keep Venice and its people safe from an imminent flood. Jack and Annie rely on this research book a lot when looking at canals and riding gondolas. They meet Tiepolo, a famous painter, and come to know the Ruler of the Seas and the Great Lady of the Lagoon. A flying lion, similar to Aslan of Narnia, finally helps Jack and Annie hold back the flood. The carnival continues and Venice is saved.

Children's Literature - Julie Schneggenburger