Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Lexile measure: unknown, companion book is 590
Bottom line: Fluffy nonfiction with black and white drawings.
Language: Acceptable.
Violence: sickness, extinction, hunting
Big Kid Mature Topics: evolution is taken as a stated fact, many ice ages taken as fact, see violence above, burial rituals
Illustrations: Black and white shaded drawings, most pages
Plot: nonfiction.
I had heard things about the Magic Treehouse series and pretty much decided they were not worth my time, but my daughter pulled this off of the shelf at the library, so I read it. This book was pretty much as I expected it to be--not terrible, but not really anything very special. It is factual, but not terribly over the head of most kids obsessed with extinct animals. There are incomplete sentences, but I wouldn't say it is any worse than some of the classics. There is a picture of two kids riding a sabertooth tiger, while the book states that one would never want to encounter one of these beasts because of its ferocity. All in all, kind of fluffy, but probably a little more sophisticated than Rainbow Magic Fairies. Of note, unlike the fiction series, the Fact Trackers do not contain any "magic".
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