Product Description

Jack and Annie are off on another adventure! This time they are sent to

ancient Greece, where a very important event is taking place. Join them as they

race against time and witness the very first Olympic games!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15907 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-20
• Released on: 1998-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780679890621
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Inside Flap
Jack and Annie are off on another adventure! This time they are sent to ancient Greece, where a very important event is taking place. Join them as they race against time and witness the very first Olympic games!  

From the Back Cover
The authors have an astonishing track record for inspiring readers





Highly acclaimed by parents, teachers, and especially kids, these books have an astonishing track record for inspiring readers

Highly acclaimed by parents, teachers, and especially kids, these books have

an astonishing track record for inspiring readers. With their strong

characters, imaginative plots, and just the right dose of history or science,

it's no wonder kids love Magic Tree House books.

About the Author

* Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was

fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts

in Virginia and North Carolina.

* After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in

the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks

of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. She then joined up with a

group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen

Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

* She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a

window dresser, and a medical assistant -- all before becoming an author! Now

she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books,

middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels.

* In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's

Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United

States.

* Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich

Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania. They own a terrier named

Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary's desk every day while she writes!

Customer Reviews

This is one of the best books I have ever read!!
This is one of the best books I have ever read (and I have all of them!) The coolest part is when Jack and Annie leaped on the horse for a ride to the treehouse where they were safe and sound! I like your books so much that I gave them to my friends as birthday presents, and now they enjoy them too! I hope you keep on writing!

In defense of the historical information included...
The first person to review this book said that it included an erroneous fact that women were indeed allowed to participate in the ancient Olympics. Actually, at first women were not permitted to participate, nor were they allowed to be spectators until the 2nd century A.D. They did, however, have their own festival at Olympia called the Heraia with the only sporting event being a short race. In Sparta, a state in southern ancient Greece, girls were encouraged to take part in sports and games (Olympics, Oxlade and Ballheimer; Eyewitness Books, 1999). So, the information provided in this book is actually factual.

Fantastic in more ways than imaginable
"Hour Of The Olympics" is good because of the ways you learn about the Olympics, and the Olympic events, plus the legend of Pegasus, the flying horse. So amazing, I almost applauded so loud my neighborhood could hear me. Trust me, you can't miss out on this one.