Summary
Este libro está dirigido especialmente a pequeños lectores entre seis y diez años. En esta ocasión Jack y Annie, los protagonistas, realizan un viaje mágico acompañados de su gran amigo el ratón Peanuts y se trasladan a una de las regiones naturales más hermosas de nuestro planeta: la cuenca del río Amazonas. Este río es el segundo más largo del mundo y recorre una longitud cercana a los 6.300 kilómetros, transportando más agua que cualquier otro. El Amazonas da vida a la mayor selva de la Tierra, un medioambiente húmedo y verde, con una prodigiosa abundancia y variedad de especies vegetales y animales. En esta entretenida aventura, Jack, Annie y el ratón Peanuts tienen la oportunidad de conocer algunos de estos animales, tales como hormigas gigantes, pirañas, cocodrilos y jaguares.
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)
