Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House #18) by Mary Pope Osborne

Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House #18) by Mary Pope Osborne-72 pages

I read this last year and enjoyed, so I wanted to read it again this year. Jack and Annie are taken back in time to the Great Plains and meet a Lakota boy named Black Hawk. He is a young warrior living with his grandmother. Black Hawk takes them to see a buffalo herd and tries to hunt buffalo on his own. It quickly turns into a stampede that they must escape from. I like that the reader learns about Native American, specifically Lakota, history and culture. One learns that the Lakota used the entire buffalo and didn't kill more than necessary. Unfortunately, white settlers and the U.S. Army overhunted for sport and spite and the buffalo nearly went extinct. I really like that these books take kids on an adventure while also learning "real" history.

Buffaloes before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osborne

Buffaloes before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osborne (Kindle Edition)-87 pages

In this adventure, Jack and Annie are sent to the Great Plains in the early 1800s. They are tasked with finding a gift from the prairie blue. Jack and Annie meet a Lakota boy and his grandmother and the boy shows them buffalo. The boy's grandmother gives Jack and Annie a gift of an eagle feather which is what they need. I enjoyed reading this book just as I have all of the Magic Tree House books I have read so far this month.