Meet the Characters
He is the older brother who loves reading books and taking notes.
Who is Jack?
Jack and Annie found the magic tree house hiding high up in this type of tree.
What is an oak tree?
This giant dinosaur was very dangerous, walked on two legs, and had huge, sharp teeth.
What is the Tyrannosaurus Rex (or T-Rex)?
True or False: Jack and Annie's parents knew they were traveling in a magic tree house.
What is False?
Dinosaurs Before Dark is a made-up story. Do we call this Fiction or Non-Fiction?
What is Fiction?
She is the younger sister who loves animals, pretending, and exploring.
Who is Annie?
When Jack and Annie climbed the rope ladder, the tree house was completely filled with these.
What are books?
This dinosaur looked a bit like a giant rhinoceros and had three horns on its head.
What is the Triceratops?
Jack used a pencil and this item to write down facts he learned about the dinosaurs.
What is a notebook?
Jack reads a lot of "facts" in his dinosaur book. Are facts true or make-believe?
What is true?
This is the friendly name Annie gave to the flying Pteranodon.
Who is Henry?
To make the tree house travel, Jack had to point to a picture and say these magic words.
What is "I wish we could go there"?
This flying reptile had a fuzzy body, no teeth, and wings like a bat.
What is a Pteranodon?
What did Annie do to make the Triceratops notice her when she was looking at it?
What is nothing? (It ignored her and kept eating)
A "medallion" is a piece of metal jewelry worn around the neck. What shape was the one Jack found?
What is round (or a circle)?
This is the name of the town in Pennsylvania where Jack and Annie live.
What is Frog Creek?
While exploring, Jack found a shiny gold medallion in the grass with this single letter on it.
What is the letter "M"?
Annie helped a group of these "duck-billed" dinosaurs who were eating flowers near their babies.
What are Anatosauruses?
Jack couldn't outrun the T-Rex, so he escaped by doing this amazing thing.
What is riding on the Pteranodon's back?
The T-Rex is described as a "carnivore," which means it only eats this.
What is meat?
She is the author who wrote Dinosaurs Before Dark.
Who is Mary Pope Osborne?
When Jack and Annie returned home at the end of the book, how much time had passed in the real world?
What is no time at all?
Jack was in big trouble when he realized he left this item on the hill right next to the T-Rex.
What is his backpack (or dinosaur book)?
To get back home, Jack had to make a wish while pointing to a picture of these woods.
What are the Frog Creek woods?
This is the big "C" word for the ancient time period when the T-Rex and Triceratops lived.
What is the Cretaceous period?