The Magic Tree House 16

Hour of the Olympics

by Mary Pope Osborne

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

Jack and Annie meet Plato and learn about the treatment of women in ancient Greece, while also rescuing a fourth lost book from history for Morgan’s library

— Michael Main

At that moment, Plato returned. With him was a young woman dressed in a long tunic with a colored border. She was holding a scroll.

DEBUT

Hour of the Olympics (Random House, December 1998).

VARIANTS

3 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454)
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

Themes

Relativistic Time Dilation: the Olympics

Real-World Tags

Ancient Greece

Fictional Tags

Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Other Mash-Ups: Pegasus
Morgan le Fay

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): 16

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to ancient Greece, circa 400 BC. Round trip. Note: Jack and Annie in the tree house.