
A person came up to me at my last signing- I think at Comic-Con- and said, 'Why don't you do one on the little horses of Mongolia?' It sounded so beautiful that I'm starting to research that now. I do things in quartets, and I'm thinking of the next creatures to save. And then before that, I wrote one about rhinos being saved in South Africa from poachers, by my characters and the Rangers. You know, there has to be a little bit of saving and a little bit of disaster. So I just had them go to the Galapagos Islands and help save a giant tortoise from a volcano eruption. So working on the 65th book now, but what grounds me and stimulates me is the place that go to. What's become harder is finding new ideas finding new ways to express things and keeping it really fresh. Mary Pope Osborne: I'm so familiar with the characters now that they have become easier. Popverse: It's been 30 years of Magic Tree House-and you're still going! How has writing these books changed over the years? In the wake of the publication of this new book, Popverse had a chance to sit down and chat with Mary Pope Osborne about 30 years of Magic Tree House, the importance of literacy, and keeping things fresh.
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Osborne has recently published a new book featuring life recollections as well as lessons that kids and adults alike can take from Magic Tree House called Memories and Life Lessons from The Magic Tree House. Over the past 30 years, Mary Pope Osborne has been writing her way through more than 50 installments of her popular children's series Magic Tree House, which follows the adventures of two siblings, Jack and Annie, as they use a magic tree house to travel to different times and places.
