Even the thumbnail page images of the index (which opens any time with a shake of the tablet) tumble about, somehow without falling out of order. These culminate in a final change into a flesh-and-blood boy with help from a fingertip “paintbrush.” Quick and responsive touch- or tilt-activated features range from controllable marionettes, Pinocchio’s tattletale nose and Fire-Eater’s explosive sneeze to a movable candle that illuminates both Geppetto in the fish’s dark belly and the accompanying block of text. Multiple taps transform a giggling block of wood in Geppetto’s workshop into a skinny, loose jointed puppet that suddenly delivers a Bronx cheer and then whirls away on a long series of misadventures. Unusually brisk special effects animate this relatively less satiric but equally amusing adaptation of the classic tale. Just in time, the pteranodon flies him back to the treehouse, and a hasty wish spins them safely home, to ponder several questions: Whose treehouse? Why all the books? Who is "M''? In the "First Stepping Stone'' series, this initial "Magic Tree House'' book is a fast-paced tale offering both mystery and dinosaurs-powerful enticements for newly independent readers. Like Dorothy and Toto, they're blown to a land of adventure: the treehouse takes them to the Cretaceous Period, where they meet a triceratops and a duck-billed dinosaur and find a gold medallion engraved "M.'' Elation gives way to terror when a tyrannosaur shows up Annie escapes, but Jack is cut off while retrieving his pack and the book.
Examining a dinosaur book, Jack blurts, "I wish I could see a pteranodon for real''-whereupon one flies in, with a rushing wind. Reluctantly followed by her eight-year-old brother, Annie enters a mysterious treehouse full of books. Nesbit tradition, Jack's wishes go awry while he and his sister Annie, seven, are time traveling.
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