The Magic Tree House: Graphic Novel 1

Dinosaurs before Dark: The Graphic Novel

adapted by Jenny Laird, Kelly Matthews, and Nicole Matthews

Release: June 2021
Format: Comic Book
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The adaptation and artwork are faithful and delightful, although I’m disappointed that commercial pressures resulted in a graphic novel for what was explicitly designed to engage early readers.

— Michael Main

Wow. I wish we could go there.

DEBUT

Dinosaurs before Dark: The Graphic Novel (Random House Children’s Books, June 2021) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS: based on Dinosaurs before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne (1992)

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous)
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!

Timeline Models

Single Static Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.

Time Travel Methods

Magic Time Travel
Wish Travel: They must always make a wish for the tree house travel to work.

Real-World Tags

Dinosaurs

Groupings

Magic Tree House (comic book): Graphic Novel 1
Magic Tree House (franchise)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to the Age of Reptiles. Round trip. Note: Nothing to suggest the story was updated beyond its original 20th-century date.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Title—The cover says Magic Tree House / The Graphic Novel / Dinosaurs before Dark, but the title page says Magic Tree House / Dinosaurs before Dark / The Graphic Novel. In either case, we allow the subtitle, The Graphic Novel, to appear prior to the main title, and we ignore the series title when there is an obvious other title.
Publisher—from the copyright page of the Kindle edition.
Release Date—the month of June is from Amazon.