by Mary Pope Osborne · EDICIONES SM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467591514
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«Las primeras olimpiadas» is the children's adventure novel by Mary Pope Osborne, published by EDICIONES SM in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
Jack and Annie travel to ancient Greece to fulfil their fourth mission as master librarians: to recover works from ancient libraries. They have already obtained a papyrus in Pompeii, a bamboo book in China and a bestiary in Ireland; now they witness the original Olympic Games and life in classical Greece.
Original title «Hour of the Olympics»; number 16 in the «La casa mágica del árbol» (Magic Tree House) series. El Barco de Vapor Azul collection, translated by Ana Isabel Hernández de Deza.
Aimed at children aged 7 and over, especially those who enjoy adventures, history and time travel.
Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. She had 3 other siblings, and moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will.
