The Magic Tree House 18

Buffalo before Breakfast

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: May 1999
Format: Early Chapter Book
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Jack and Annie are given a second gift for Teddy from the legendary White Buffalo Woman of the Lakota.

— Michael Main

“. . . I got in the way of the buffalo. I couldn’t escape. So I held up my hands and shouted, ‘Stop!’ Then, out of nowhere, a beautiful lady in a white leather dress came to help me.”

DEBUT

Buffalo before Breakfast (Random House, May 1999).

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1800 to 1899
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

Real-World Tags

Indigenous Americans: the Lakota

Fictional Tags

Morgan le Fay: offstage
White Buffalo Calf Woman

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): 18

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to the American plains, circa 1800. Round trip. Note: Jack and Annie in the tree house.