Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 1*

Christmas in Camelot

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: October 2001
Format: Novelette
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

On Christmas Eve, Jack and Annie’s tree house transports them to King Arthur’s castle in Camelot. They arrive to find that all is not well in Camelot, Merlin has been banned, and all magic use is forbidden. Many of the bravest knights have been lost on a mysterious quest to the Otherworld. The Christmas feast is interrupted by a knight, who sets a challenge to find the knights and break the curse. He demands to know “Who will go?” Annie, naturally, accepts. She and Jack set out on a quest to the Otherworld, to bring back magic and joy to Camelot.

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DEBUT

Christmas in Camelot (Random House, October 2001) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): Even though it has magic, we take Camelot to be in the real middle ages, but we also mark it as being debatable time travel.
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

Real-World Tags

Christmas

Fictional Tags

Camelot: [Need to check which characters are in the story.]
King Arthur
Merlin
Morgan le Fay: [Need to check this.]

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): Merlin Mission 1 [originally Magic Tree House 30 in the pre-2017 numbering system]

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Camelot at an unknown time. Round trip. Note: We don't know whether this is the Camelot in our timeline.