An Afternoon With Mary Pope Osborne: Author of the Magic Tree House Books

Join us at the Stockbridge Library for an afternoon with Mary Pope Osborne! Children will hear Mary speak about the process and joy of writing the Magic Tree House book series, receive a free book (while supplies last), have their book signed, and take a photo with Mary.

For children and their families. This event is free and has no registration, but seating is limited.

This event is being held in collaboration with the WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival. The festival lasts from September 27 to 29 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Click here to see a full lineup of events offered by WIT.

Mary Pope Osborne was born into adventure. Her dad was in the army, so every year or two her family would move to a different state, or even a different country! By the time she was fifteen, Mary had lived in thirteen different houses and gone to eight different schools!

Writing children’s books was a perfect career for Mary because she could still travel all over the world — but be back home in time for dinner. She has written almost a hundred books, including biographies, mysteries, picture books, novels, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythology.

The books that have taken Mary to the most places are the Magic Tree House series. With Jack and Annie, she has traveled through time, from the prehistoric land of dinosaurs to the imaginary world of Camelot. But one of the greatest adventures of Mary’s writing life is the creative journey she takes with her readers, meeting them in person in schools and bookstores and reading the wonderful stories and letters they send. This, Mary says, is true magic.

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