The Magic Tree House 15

Viking Ships at Sunrise

by Mary Pope Osborne

• Release: October 1998
• Format: Early Chapter Book
• Genre: Fantasy
• Audience: Children
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

The serpent’s neck was as tall as a two-story building. Its green scales were covered with sea slime.

VARIANTS

3 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): 9th century Ireland
• 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

Real-World Tags

• Religious Orders: Irish Monks
• Vikings

Fictional Tags

• Kracken and Other Water Monsters: Sarph, the legendary Irish Serpent
• Morgan le Fay

Groupings

• Magic Tree House (story series): 15

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Ireland, 9th century AD. Round trip. Note: Jack and Annie in the tree house.