The Study of the Magic Tree House Series

• Main Authors: LIN,Fet-Tong, 林飛彤
• Other Authors: Liao, Cho-Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6hqvvh

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 語文與創作學系碩士班 === 103 === The subject of this research is the book series of Magic Tree House. Though being a world-known best-seller of children’s books, there are rare analytical researches about it. At the present time, from all the researches one can find on Magic Tree House are on pedagogy. This research analyze the author, plots, characters, settings and themes in details. One can see in this research that author’s personal experiences and interests had tremendously influenced her work. Besides, the plots in the stories are full of suspense, conflict, foreshadowing, and most importantly, traveling back and forth through time and space, which are the four aspects to be analyzed in details. As for characters, besides the main ones, author used well-known people in history as supporting roles to coordinate with the settings, and built other characters to progress the storyline and present the settings. Among all, settings are the most distinctive characteristics of Magic Tree House, author used time traveling to bring readers into the settings. This serves not only as the atmosphere builder, but also provides “conflicts” for the plot. Different from many other children’s literature, Magic Tree House conveys its message through vivid dialogues between characters, other than narrators. With simple story structure, Magic Tree House successfully uses its plots to draw attentions of young readers, and further induces their empathy, as well as right their wrong philosophy. The second part(book29-48) of the series has deeper and lengthier content, which can even broaden young readers’ sense of literature reading. Keyword: Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House, Children’s Literature.