

The two always solve the problems they need to together with great teamwork. Annie is more adventurous and is always getting into trouble and/or chasing things. Jack is more intelligent of the two and is always looking out for his little sister, Annie. The two main characters in the book are Jack and Annie. Jack hurried back to grab the book and they arrived home safely. As they got to the treehouse Jack realized that he forgot the book onshore and the pirates were catching up to them. On the way to find the treasure, Jack and Annie escaped back to the treehouse to go home. They believed it came from Cap’n Kidd’s treasure. The pirates thought Jack knew where it was because of the gold medallion around his neck. When they got there, they are captured by pirates and held hostage until they showed the pirates where the treasure was. Since it was raining out, Annie grabbed the book with the beach and wished they could go there. It starts off like all of the other books when Jack and Annie went out to the Frog Creek woods and got into the treehouse. It was a chapter book written by Mary Pope Osborne. “Pirates Past Noon,” was the fourth book in the Magic Treehouse series. I believe we're scheduled to visit the Amazon jungle in the next book (in our order, anyway). I am glad that the series got to continue from here, and the Kiddo is definitely looking forward to more. The story ends on something of an infodump, which, as fun and creative as it is (and it is both of those things) is still a big chunk of explanation rather than, well, swashbuckling adventure. The pirate adventure also gets cut short a bit due to the need to develop the ongoing meta-plot in the final chapters. It's exciting and fast-paced, but I felt like Cap'n Bones could have been fleshed out a bit more as a character. This book features a lot of action, and some very real peril for the kids. This book features Cap'n Bones, a pirate eager for gold, and in need of the kids' help because he can't read the treasure map he acquired. Other books we've read in the series so far either had no clear-cut villain, or the villains were nameless menaces. In this story, the main characters Jack and Annie meet the owner of the mysterious Magic Treehouse and learn some of its secrets.Īnd there are also pirates. This book is the fourth in the series, and it represents an ending point for the initial ongoing plot. He borrows the ones that interest him from the library, so we have not been reading the series in order. I've been reading these books out loud to him. This series has definitely caught his attention, which is great. The Kiddo came home with two more Magic Treehouse books from his school library. All of a sudden it's all Magic Treehouse all the time in our household.
