The Magic Tree House 19

Tigers at Twilight

by Mary Pope Osborne

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

Jack, Annie, and their spellbound dog Teddy face tigers and other wildlife in India.

— Michael Main

“When you saved the tiger, you saved all of him,” said the blind man. “You saved his graceful beauty—and his fierce, savage nature. You cannot have one without the other.”

DEBUT

Tigers at Twilight (Random House, August 1999).

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

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 Static Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.

Time Travel Methods

Fictional Tags

Morgan le Fay: offstage

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): 19

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to India, possibly in the kids’s present day. Round trip. Note: The only certain time travel is that they return to their exact departure time.