The Magic Tree House 20

Dingoes at Dinnertime

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: March 2000
Format: Early Chapter Book
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

The little dog, Teddy, needs one more gift before the spell he is under can be broken, so Jack and Annie take him to the Australian outback where the final gift comes from a mama kangaroo.

— Michael Main

But at least I got to have exciting adventures as a dog!

DEBUT

Dingoes at Dinnertime (Random House, March 2000).

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

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

Fictional Tags

Morgan le Fay: offstage

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): 20

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Australian outback, unknown time. Round trip. Note: The only certain time travel is that they return to their exact departure time.
From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Camelot. Note: Morgan le Fay in the treehouse.