Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #22: Rags and Riches: Kids in the Time of Charles Dickens: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission Series #16: A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time

by Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Sal Murdocca (Illustrator)

Overview

Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
 
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #44: A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time, they had lots of questions. Why did Charles Dickens write A Christmas Carol? How did he help the poor? What jobs did poor Victorian kids have? How did rich kids spend their time? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375860102
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	09/14/2010
Series:	Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	46,233
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 7.63(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	810L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

MARY POPE OSBORNE and NATALIE POPE BOYCE are sisters who grew up on army posts all over the world. They are working on more Magic Tree House® Fact Tracker books to give Magic Tree House readers facts and information about places, time periods, and animals that Jack and Annie discover in the Magic Tree House adventures.
 
Mary lives in Connecticut. Natalie makes her home nearby in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Mary is the author of all the Magic Tree House fiction titles as well as many more books for kids.
 
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children'sopera, 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

Editorial Reviews

This nonfiction, easy to read text is divided into six chapters and includes rich resources for additional research for newly independent readers. The lives of children in the Victorian age are described in terms of their health, activities, jobs and surroundings. The authors explore the world of Charles Dickens through the eyes of children (both rich and poor) and what it would have been like to live at that time. Photographs and drawings show children working in factories, scavenging for food, playing on the streets, and note the kinds of books, toys, and education that would have been available to them. The book tells a little about Dickens' own life in the context of the age—the poverty of his family, his good fortune in being sent to school, and the books he wrote that are still popular today. The changes that occurred during that time period are also described—technology, education, medicine and laws that affected the quality of life for these children. Beautifully organized, this book would be an asset in any classroom or school library, and offers terrific materials for further study—books, museums, movies and websites can be found at the back of the book, along with an index. Reviewer: Dawna Lisa Buchanan

Children's Literature - Dawna Lisa Buchanan