Reflecting, Osborne has a theory about why her books have such a lasting impact on readers, whether middle schoolers or adults. Young Fan mail and the ‘gift’ of writing for young readers By nightfall, I had it, and then I had the book," she said.Īs for what makes tree houses so, well, magical? Osborne took a guess. Both of us wished we'd had when we were young. "We're walking in the woods and saw an old tree house. The breakthrough came when she and her husband were on vacation in Pennsylvania and encountered a tree house. In the seven failed manuscripts, Jack and Annie used devices like a magic cellar, a magic artist's studio, a magic museum and magic whistles to travel back in time. It took a year of bad ideas to get to the good one," she said. "I came up with an idea of time travel, but I didn't know how I would get a brother and sister back in time.
Osborne published children's books about history and mythology before she was approached by Random House about starting a series. It just sort of rushed through me," she said. "I'd go up to the roof of the Bleecker Street apartment and I started writing children's stories. Between waitressing jobs, Osborne began writing for kids. She and her husband moved to New York, where he tried to find acting work. She fell ill in Nepal and practically had to be airlifted home, putting an end to her bohemian journey - and starting her next adventure.
In her early 20s, Osborne traveled through Europe and Asia, stopping in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Starting with that latchkey childhood, freedom and curiosity are threads through her biography, leading up to the creation of "Tree House." "We didn't mind the moving because we always had each other, and the new environments stimulated different kinds of play." She grew up in a military family, moving about every two years. A table would become a ship," Osborne said.
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