Lions at Lunchtime
- by Mary Pope Osborne
- Early Chapter Book
- Fantasy
- Children
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- Lions at Lunchtime by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, February 1998).
Jack and Annie travel to the plains of Africa—probably with no time travel apart from returning to their exact moment of departure—where among the lions and giraffes, they solve the third of four riddles on their way to becoming Master Librarians.
—Michael Main
Jack watched as she hopped off the ladder. Then she started to walk through the tall grass, between the zebras and giraffes.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: The entire trip is presumed to take place in the kids’ present day, with the only time travel being that they return to the exact moment of their departure.
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.
- Time Travel Methods
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- Lions at Lunchtime by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, February 1998).
- audio reading.
Lions at Lunchtime by Mary Pope Osborne, in Magic Treehouse Collection, Books 9–16, Listening Library, October 2003. - alternative title.
Lions on the Loose by Mary Pope Osborne (Red Fox, February 2009).