false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg 824734 17 Illus. in black-and-white. "With an entertaining blend of fact, farce, and fantasy, Osborne tells the story of Jack and his sister, Annie, who take a trip in a magic tree house and land in a time 65 million years ago. They find dinosaurs and volcanoes and adventure. Veteran storyteller Osborne builds the power of reading into the story: it's the books in the tree house that give the kids the magic to travel and see far, far away."--<i>Booklist. </i> 933480 28 7 1992 Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House #1) total:1995|5:611|4:521|3:600|2:204|1:59| 1995 7406 2301 239 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 1 false Sun Nov 23 19:53:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 00:29:23 -0800 2008
A good transition into chapter books for the new reader.

While formulaic, predictable, and not particularly clever, this series serves the purpose of providing adventure at a fast moving pace for the new t...more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 3 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 17:45:42 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 18:51:15 -0700 2008 For grades 1-3

Jack and his sister Annie discover a book-filled tree house, and, when Jack opens a book about dinosaurs, discover that it can magically transport them back in time to see real dinosaurs.

Organized into ten short chapters, with a full-page i...more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 13:27:35 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 13:27:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 4 0 false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 23 18:58:32 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 19:07:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 2 0 false Tue Jun 23 05:08:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 05:19:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon May 11 05:28:34 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 05:31:11 -0700 2009
The following pretty well sums up my opinon. Actually, it does it much better than I might have. There are just two small comments I woul...more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 30 16:46:13 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 19:21:14 -0800 2009
Osbourne truly engages the imagination of her readers in the fiction paperback series “The Magic Tree House”. She uses a colorful cover page to peak the interest of the students as in the first book of the series, “Dinosaurs Before Dark”. The expr...more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 2 0 false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 15:34:04 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 15:07:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 19:30:38 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 19:42:01 -0700 2009
Having said that, I, as an adult, didn't find it interesting. I think my son found parts of it interesting, but he wasn't mesmerized.

A couple of things I didn't like: Ma...more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 4 1 false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 14:54:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 19:30:12 -0700 2008 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Feb 13 11:32:21 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 11:35:11 -0800 2008 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 20:09:44 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 20:12:20 -0800 2008 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 3 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 18 00:03:49 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 00:07:34 -0800 2008 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 08:27:36 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 08:33:44 -0800 2009 The text i...more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 4 1 false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 17:29:01 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 17:32:03 -0700 2008 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 0 false Sun Mar 22 16:26:47 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 16:31:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 0 0 false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:40:07 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 18:13:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 3 0 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 08:45:16 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 08:55:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 824734 0679824111 9780679824114 1945 236 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178718410m/824734.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:05:24 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:08:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3475861 1862305234 9781862305236 13 2 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3475861.The_Magic_Tree_House_1_Valley_of_the_Dinosaurs 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 15:58:03 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:27:41 -0800 2009
Oddly, the English publishers changed the ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=824734