Polar Bears Past Bedtime
- by Mary Pope Osborne
- Early Chapter Book
- Fantasy
- Children
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- Polar Bears Past Bedtime by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, April 1998).
In the Arctic, a native seal-hunter and the animals of the north show Jack and Annie their way of life while the kids solve the final riddle in their quest to join the Ancient Society of Master Librarians.
—Michael Main
The tree house was on the ground. There were no trees and no houses, only an endless field of ice and snow.
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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
- Themes
- Time Corps: “You are the newest members of the Ancient Society of Master Librarians.”
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
(3)
- Polar Bears Past Bedtime by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, April 1998).
- audio reading.
Polar Bears Past Bedtime by Mary Pope Osborne, in Magic Treehouse Collection, Books 9–16, Listening Library, October 2003. - alternative title.
Icy Escape by Mary Pope Osborne (Red Fox, March 2009).