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Sep 11, 2026
Danny NevilleGUEST
As long as your agent or your editor is in agreement, you know, there are book series.
Danny NevilleGUEST
You think of like the Magic Treehouse series.
Danny NevilleGUEST
There are dozens and dozens of books and they're not aging.
Danny NevilleGUEST
So you don't have to age your characters.
Tim PaulsonGUEST
And I was like, where is this coming from? You're five and a half years old.
Tim PaulsonGUEST
And he's like, oh, well, in one of the Magic Treehouse books, they go back to, you know, they go to D-Day.
Tim PaulsonGUEST
And like, so we're having a conversation at like 10 o'clock at night.
Tim PaulsonGUEST
And I'm trying to like, explain what a nazi was and how d-day worked and like all of this to my five-year-old and it was just like in the moment it's like you're trying to figure out how to explain it in a way that's like not too gra you know like again digestible for a five-year-old but it's also not going to scar you know like it was just like such a a crazy experience and it just felt like it came out of nowhere but again he he read about in these books because they go into some historical periods and they touch on things so Yeah, that was my first attempt at being a history teacher, and I think I did okay.
Hannah SweereHOST
this is all coming back to me.
Kelsey HartleyHOST
I want to say my first book I actually read by myself was probably a Magic Treehouse book.
Kelsey HartleyHOST
I feel like maybe like Jones.
Kelsey HartleyHOST
I don't like those types of books that like, like early chapter mass from the library.
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Kelsey HartleyHOST
Which is a recommendation you get a lot is like listen and read.
Kelsey HartleyHOST
We did discover, I knew these existed, but I didn't realize what they were.
Kelsey HartleyHOST
The Magic Treehouse Merlin missions are harder than the normal Magic Treehouse books.
Kelsey HartleyHOST
So it's like a nice next step
Eugene VegerGUEST
They would read, uh, all the time.
Eugene VegerGUEST
Uh, I was big fan, and they were, both kids were big fans of Magic Tree House.
SonnyHOST
Mm-hmm.
Eugene VegerGUEST
That's why, uh, it's, uh...
Michelle FrenchHOST
And so it was just, again, it's like, how do you read a book and see a place and then write something about it? And how does that solidify everything for you of what history actually is?
Kent FrenchHOST
And The Magic Treehouse, if you're not familiar, it is about two kids who go in this magic treehouse and they go back in time.
Kent FrenchHOST
It's time travel.
Kent FrenchHOST
And then they go and they live through these moments in history.
AnnaHOST
Chapter books like Junie B. Jones.
Austin NortPANELIST
Magic Treehouse.
AnnaHOST
Fear Street.
Austin NortPANELIST
And The Walking Dead comics.
Karen HalingaGUEST
And then what I do is I start decreasing the font size.
Karen HalingaGUEST
And usually by the time we get to easy chapter books like Magic Treehouse, they start to have to use a finger.
Karen HalingaGUEST
I start seeing head movement like this, or they start not self-correcting.
Karen HalingaGUEST
Maybe they're just guessing at words.
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Karen HalingaGUEST
Well, when I do a reading assessment, I always start with something easy that I know that the child is either familiar with or something that he's going to be very, very comfortable with.
Karen HalingaGUEST
And then what I do is I start decreasing the font size.
Karen HalingaGUEST
And usually by the time we get to easy chapter books like Magic Treehouse, They start to have to use a finger.
Karen HalingaGUEST
I start seeing head movement like this.
BriannaHOST
any book
MackenzieHOST
you know what you know what's great magic tree house i
BriannaHOST
i was awesome books to start with oh my god for any i don't know if you had this but when i was in middle school i love how we got so off track we'll come back um we had like this thing called ar like advanced reading and we also had a math one which i hated i'm i hate math i'm so sorry guys i'm not a stem girl um clearly by anything i've ever done in my life But you had to read a book.
BriannaHOST
Every marking period, you had to read enough books and get enough points by taking the quiz to make sure you retained what you read.
LaurenHOST
I feel like it was kind of a like four or five, six-year-old kind of thing.
LaurenHOST
And then moved on to Magic Tree House.
LaurenHOST
Were you, were those around in your time? Do you remember those? Couldn't tell you.
LaurenHOST
They, yeah, I loved those.
Henley CoxHOST
Si- Silas has listened...
Henley CoxHOST
He can't read yet, but Silas has listened to probably, like, 30 Magic Tree House books.
Emily GonzalezHOST
Mm-hmm.
Henley CoxHOST
And Magic Tree House could be horror, but it's not, just because nothing really that bad happens, and the kids are always happy, and they're always fine.
Joel JensenGUEST
[laughs]
Henley CoxHOST
But, like, if you just change those two things, immediately horrific, everything that's going on in Magic Tree House.
Emily GonzalezHOST
Yeah.
Joel JensenGUEST
[laughs]
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