Read A Crazy Day with Cobras Online
Authors: Mary Pope Osborne
A Crazy Day with Cobras
Here’s what kids have to say to
Mary Pope Osborne, author of
the Magic Tree House series:
WOW! You have an imagination like no other.
—Adam W.
I love your books. If you stop writing books, it will be like losing a best friend
.—Ben M.
I think you are the real Morgan le Fay. There is always magic in your books
.—Erica Y.
One day I was really bored and I didn’t want to read.… I looked in your book. I read a sentence, and it was interesting. So I read some more, until the book was done. It was so good I read more and more. Then I had read all of your books, and now I hope you write lots more
.—Danai K.
I always read [your books] over and over … 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, 4 times.…
—Yuan C.
You are my best author in the world. I love your books. I read all the time. I read everywhere. My mom is like freaking out
.—Ellen C.
I hope you make these books for all yours and mine’s life
.—Riki H.
Teachers and librarians love
Magic Tree House® books, too!
Thank you for opening faraway places and times to my class through your books. They have given me the chance to bring in additional books, materials, and videos to share with the class.
—J. Cameron
It excites me to see how involved [my fourth-grade reading class] is in your books.… I would do anything to get my students more involved, and this has done it.
—C. Rutz
I discovered your books last year.… WOW! Our students have gone crazy over them. I can’t order enough copies! … Thanks for contributing so much to children’s literature!
—C. Kendziora
I first came across your Magic Tree House series when my son brought one home.… I have since introduced this great series to my class. They have absolutely fallen in love with these books! … My students are now asking me for more independent reading time to read them. Your stories have inspired even my most struggling readers.
—M. Payne
I love how I can go beyond the [Magic Tree House] books and use them as springboards for other learning
.—R. Gale
We have enjoyed your books all year long. We check your Web site to find new information. We pull our map down to find the areas where the adventures take place. My class always chimes in at key parts of the story. It feels good to hear my students ask for a book and cheer when a new book comes out
.—J. Korinek
Our students have “Magic Tree House fever.” I can’t keep your books on the library shelf
.—J. Rafferty
Your books truly invite children into the pleasure of reading. Thanks for such terrific work
.—S. Smith
The children in the fourth grade even hide the [Magic Tree House] books in the library so that they will be able to find them when they are ready to check them out
.—K. Mortensen
My Magic Tree House books are never on the bookshelf because they are always being read by my students. Thank you for creating such a wonderful series
.—K. Mahoney
T
he hottest day of my life was also the day I saw the most beautiful building of my life. Many years ago, friends and I rode for months in a van, traveling through Asia. When we arrived in Agra, India, the heat was so unbearable I could barely think or move. A tour guide led us around to see the sights, and late in the afternoon, we arrived at one of the wonders of the world: the Taj Mahal
.
When I got out of the van, I forgot all about the heat. I felt as if I had stepped from the real world into a dream. Through the heat waves, a twenty-story marble building shimmered in the pink twilight. The Taj Mahal was the tomb of a Mogul queen named Mumtãz Mahal, built by her grieving husband, Shah Jahãn, in the 1600s
.
Since that day, I’ve always wanted to go back to the Taj Mahal. In this book, traveling with Jack and Annie, I finally have
.
Thanks for joining us
.
This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2011 by Mary Pope Osborne
Jacket art and interior illustrations copyright © 2011 by Sal Murdocca
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Random House and the colophon are registered trademarks and A Stepping Stone Book and the colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. Magic Tree House is a registered trademark of Mary Pope Osborne; used under license.
Visit us on the Web!
MagicTreeHouse.com
www.randomhouse.com/kids
Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at
www.randomhouse.com/teachers
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Mary Pope.
A crazy day with cobras / by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Magic tree house ; #45)
“A Merlin mission.”
“A Stepping Stone book.”
Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89875-4
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Tree houses—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. India—History—1526–1765—Fiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.O81167Cr 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010013896
Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.
v3.1
For Nikita, Kumar, and Susan
Only let this one teardrop, the Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever
.
—Rabindranath Tagore,
Nobel laureate poet from West Bengal
