Summary
En este entretenido libro infantil, Jack y Annie -sus protagonistas- realizan un viaje mágico a través del tiempo y se trasladan al Japón feudal donde tendrán oportunidad de conocer a unos personajes que hasta hoy revisten caracteres de leyenda: los guerreros ninja. El término "ninja" es una palabra de origen japonés que designa a una persona que ha llegado a dominar el arte de ser casi imperceptible. Históricamente los ninja surgieron en Japón durante el siglo quince como pequeñas organizaciones de carácter militar para prevenir la violencia y los abusos que por entonces padecían con demasiada frecuencia los habitantes de los pequeños poblados japoneses. Con el tiempo, en la medida que surgían rivalidades entre los señores feudales que dominaban distintas regiones, los ninja fueron reclutados para realizar arriesgadas misiones. Jack y Annie serán testigos de ello en esta entretenida historia.
Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine.
Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse.
(Bowker Author Biography)
