Mary Pope Osborne | Magic Tree House: To the Future, Ben Franklin! with Natalie Pope Boyce
Recorded Jul 11, 2019
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20190711-marypop.mp3
Mary Pope Osborne is the prolific author of the beloved Magic Tree House series of children’s books. Featuring time-traveling brother and sister Jack and Annie, the wildly popular books have been translated into nearly three dozen languages and have sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. To the Future, Ben Franklin! finds the duo traveling back in time to meet America’s most famous bespectacled inventor. Pope Osborne’s sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, is her coauthor on the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker series, which give curious young readers more information about the historical time periods, people, places, and creatures encountered by the main series’ young heroes.
With a special appearance by Ben Franklin himself!
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