Author Mary Pope Osborne donates 1.2 million books to US schools
The Magic Tree House writer has distributed books to underserved Title I schools through her Gift of Books programme.
Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne has donated more than 1.2 million books to children in underserved Title I schools across the United States, according to the Times of India.
The Gift of Books programme aims to provide reading material to schools serving low-income communities that often work with limited resources.
Title I is a federal education programme that provides financial assistance to schools with high numbers of children from low-income families.
Osborne has supported children's literacy through this personal initiative alongside a writing career that has spanned more than three decades.
The author has written 64 fiction titles in the Magic Tree House series, which includes the Merlin Missions and a Super Edition.
Her husband, Will Osborne, and her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, have also worked on the franchise to develop the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers nonfiction collection.
