Bobbsey Twins And Magic Tree House

2 Pages 538 Words

Bobbsey Twins and Magic Tree House
After Reading book one of the Bobbsey Twins series, The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport, and The Magic Tree House series book one, Dinosaurs Before Dinner it became obvious to me that the time periods they were written were very different. The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport took an immediate trip back in time. The language it was written in and also the story idea seemed very dated. In the Magic Tree House the characters and also the writing was extremely modernized. It was interesting to compare two very different times in which the books were written.
When reading the Bobbsey Twins book there were many things that stuck out in my mind. The book was published in 1961 and so much of it was very dated, it reminded me of 1950's TV shows. The family had a mother and a father who played a big part in the book. The family also had a older couple named Dihah and Sam Johnson that lived upstairs in the family’s very large house. Dinah would help Mrs. Bobbsey clean the house and cook for the large family while Sam would drive a truck for Mr. Bobbsey’s lumber company. The Bobbsey family had two sets of twins, Nan and Bert and Freddie and Flossie. The children went on many adventures throughout the book. They were on the hunt for missing treasure in an old house by the school. The children got the key for the house from the principal of their school, something that would never happened in today’s books. The children also used words in there speech like “gay” and the father who’s name was Richard was referred to as “Dick”. Those types of things are just not in the books written today.
The first book in the Magic Tree House series titled, Dinosaurs Before Dark is about two kids, Jack and Annie. Jack and Annie are brother and sister. They find a tree house in the woods by their house and decide to go up and investigate it. When they get up to the tree house the two children find it filled with books. W...