Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 20*

A Perfect Time For Pandas

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: July 2012
Format: Novelette
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on Merlin’s beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world’s largest giant panda reserve.

— based on fandom.com

DEBUT

A Perfect Time For Pandas (Random House, July 2012) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!
Unspecified Year: [Need to check this.]

Timeline Models

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

Time Travel Methods

Fictional Tags

Merlin: possibly offstage [Need to check this.]
Morgan le Fay: [Need to check this.]

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): Merlin Mission 20 [originally Magic Tree House 49 in the pre-2017 numbering system]

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to southeast China. Round trip. Note: We still need to find the date of the historic earthquake.