神奇樹屋小百科4《海盜》─神奇樹屋4《海盜的藏寶圖》(Pirates Past Noon)知識讀本　　Magic Tree House Research Guide #4: Pirates
傑克和安妮在《海盜的藏寶圖》裡遇上了邪惡的酷骨船長，幸運逃回家後，他們對海盜做了許多研究：　　．為什麼會有海盜？　　．海盜的生活是什麼樣子？　　．海盜都是男的嗎？有沒有女海盜？　　．還有，海盜的寶藏到底存不存在呢？
　　想看看傑克和安妮蒐集的海盜畫像和故事嗎？他們要做些什麼才能夠變成海盜呢？快跟著傑克和安妮一起來研究可怕的海盜！書裡有照片，有趣的故事和插畫，還有更多知識！
「神奇樹屋小百科」(Magic Tree House Research Guide)系列簡介：
　　相信很多小朋友已經跟著傑克和安妮，坐著神奇樹屋到各地去冒險過了。恐龍谷裡有嚇人的暴龍，城堡裡有神祕的騎士，金字塔裡有可怕的木乃伊，另外他們還遇上了邪惡的海盜船長和美妙的寶藏……每一場冒險都是一場驚奇，也是一次知識的探險。
　　但是傑克和安妮穿越時空回到家之後，心裡還是有著各式各樣的疑問，於是認真的他們一起到圖書館找書、到博物館參觀學習、到網路上找資料，做了許許多多的研究，最後寫成了「神奇樹屋小百科」。他們花了許多精神力氣，才蒐集到各種知識、照片、有趣的小故事，並配上有趣的插畫。
　　現在，傑克和安妮不僅要和大家一起坐著神奇樹屋去探險，還要跟大家分享有趣又實用的知識！請跟著傑克和安妮，一起來研究學習吧！
　　★本書中譯本《神奇樹屋小百科4：海盜》由小天下出版
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon, they had lots of questions. Did pirates really make people walk the plank? What was life like on a pirate ship? Is there any buried treasure around today? Argh How do you talk like a pirate? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts.
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瑪麗．波．奧斯本、威爾．奧斯本　Mary Pope Osborne、Will Osborne
　　兩人為夫妻。瑪麗為美國知名兒童文學作家，筆下「神奇樹屋」系列書籍廣受好評，並深受孩童喜愛。寫作至今已30餘年，作品超過80本以上，並獲得許多獎項，曾擔任兩屆美國作家協會主席。威爾多年來一直致力於劇場工作，曾擔任演員、導演及劇本作家。
　　他們兩人針對本書的創作表示：「研究海盜真是一件有趣的事。威爾前往英國倫敦拜訪英國國家海事博物館；瑪麗則在挪威的奧斯陸參觀維京長船的模樣。但最有趣的事，其實發生在離我們家不遠的城市──紐約。我們在那兒看到一艘具有將近兩百年歷史的帆船，還登船參觀！這些旅行真的讓我們回到過去，也幫助我們對海上生活有更多了解。」
WILL OSBORNE and MARY POPE OSBORNE have been married for a number of years and live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs, Joey, Mr. Bezo, and Little Bear.
Mary is the author of over one hundred books for children, including novels, picture books, biographies, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythologies. Will has worked for many years in the theater as an actor, director, and playwright. Together he and Mary have coauthored two books of Greek mythology and eight Magic Tree House(R) Fact Trackers. Will has also written a multimedia planetarium show, Magic Tree House Space Mission, and is cocreator with Randy Courts of Magic Tree House: The Musical, a full-scale Broadway-style family musical based on Christmas in Camelot.
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children’s trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children’s opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children’s illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.