"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Greenland where they discover they've traveled back in time to meet Lief Erikson"--

Presents an excerpt from Homer's Odyssey where Odysseus returns to Ithaca and finds that he must fight to regain control from those who are plaguing his family.

Retells the part of Homer's "Odyssey" in which Odysseus meets Circe and struggles against the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis.

Stage fright on a summer night: Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear. Good morning gorillas: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them. Thanksgiving on Thursday: Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the...

Monday with a mad genius: Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness. Dark day in the deep sea: When eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, join a group of nineteenth-century explorers aboard the H.M.S. Challenger, they learn about the ocean, solve the mystery of its fabled sea monster, and gain compassion for their...

Retells the part of Homer's "Odyssey" in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.

Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.

Presents the history of the steamship Titanic and its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912 and examines some of the questions concerning the sinking of the famous "unsinkable" ship.

An introduction to rain forests, examining their different layers, plants and animals, and human residents, looking at some of the products that originate in the rain forests, and discussing the need to preserve the tropical environments.

Jack and Annie present information about the universe, including our solar system, and briefly describe the history of space travel and of the science of astronomy.