Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker)

Will Osborne; Mary Pope Osborne

ISBN 10: 0613630009 ISBN 13: 9780613630009

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2002

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Explores the history of the steamship Titanic, from Thomas Andrews' plans for ""the safest ship on the ocean"" to the lingering questions concerning its disastrous maiden voyage in 1912.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

How long did it take to build the Titanic? Why did it sink? What was it like to be a passenger? What happened to the people who survived? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Titanic, Jack and Annie’s very own guide to the ship and its story. Includes information on the people who sailed on the Titanic, life on board the ship, the search for the sunken remains, Titanic artifacts today, and much more!

About the Author

WILL OSBORNE and MARY POPE OSBORNE have been married for a number of years and live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs, Joey, Mr. Bezo, and Little Bear.
 
Mary is the author of over one hundred books for children, including novels, picture books, biographies, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythologies. Will has worked for many years in the theater as an actor, director, and playwright. Together he and Mary have coauthored two books of Greek mythology and eight Magic Tree House® Fact Trackers. Will has also written a multimedia planetarium show, Magic Tree House Space Mission, and is cocreator with Randy Courts of Magic Tree House: The Musical, a full-scale Broadway-style family musical based on Christmas in Camelot.
 
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. 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. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0613630009
• ISBN 13: 9780613630009
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Sal Murdocca