Dinosaurs Before Dark ─ Full Color Edition

We are celebrating by bringing full color to the Cretaceous period-full-color art that is! This jacketed hardcover edition boasts new artwork, plus extras, like an interview between the creators, a letter from Mary Pope Osborne, and up-to-date dinosaur info! Join Jack and Annie as they travel back to the time of dinosaurs where they encounter all sorts of dinos from the terrifying T-Rex to the crowd-pleasing Triceratops-and start on a life-time of adventures with new readers.

Story Locale: Cretaceous Period

Series Overview: One of our bestselling series/brands, Magic Tree House has 28 "classic" paperback titles and 20 hardcovers (Merlin Missions) as well as their paperback reprints, and 24 Fact Tracker books. The titles are published in hardcover with paperbacks following 12 to 24 months later (timing decided on a case-by-case basis). As always, the books work as stand-alone titles, but have four-book story arcs that add a deeper dimension to the individual stories.

MARY POPE OSBORNE is the author of all the Magic Tree House books, and, with her husband, has written Magic Tree House: The Musical.

Author Residence: Goshen, CT

Author Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC

SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated over 200 children's trade and textbooks. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design.

Illustrator Residence: New York City, NY