Mary Pope Osborne Adds No Greenland Sharks to Narwhal on a Sunny Night

Summary: Mary Pope Osborne adds no Greenland Sharks to Narwhal on a Sunny Night even as Magic Tree House Series book #33 addresses 10th-century Greenland.

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Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) and narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are toothed sharks with habitats in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans; on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, Random House Books for Young Readers released Narwhal on a Sunny Night as the 33rd instalment of the Magic Tree House children's book series by American author Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949): Magic Tree House, via Facebook Jan. 7, 2020

Mary Pope Osborne adds no Greenland Sharks to Narwhal on a Sunny Night even as Magic Tree House Series book #33 addresses 10th-century Greenland, afore climate change, global warming and Greenland thaw.

Narwhal on a Sunny Night brings siblings Annie and Jack to blue, brown, green, white Greenland, where the midnight sun brightens days, evenings, nights, early mornings. It considers the world-biggest island 1,030 years before the 2020-published 33rd Magic Tree House, in perhaps the year 990, eight years after its first-completed European colonization. It designates as first-dwelling, pre-European Greenlanders Inuit (from Greenland-language Inukitut inuit, "the people"), who domiciled the Arctic-Circle island some 4,500 years ago, around 2480 BC/BCE.

Narwhal on a Sunny Night estimates extant Greenlanders as a 56,000-person enumeration even as it emphasizes Iceland immigrant, Norway native, red-bearded, red-haired explorer Erik the Red.

Erik the Red (Erik Thorvaldsson [Old Norse ei[-]rikr, "eternal[-]ruler"; þórr[-]valdr, "thunder[-]rule"]), 950?, Jæren, Rogaland [Old Norse jaðarr, "[coastal-]brim/edge; rygir[-]land, "[Germanic-tribe] Rugians land")-1003?, Greenland) founded Erik's Inlet.

A hill-crest long wooden house; chickens-, cows-, dogs-, ducks-, hogs-gathering barns and small thatched huts guard Erik's 14-ship settlement group, not his lost 11-ship settler group. A long stone home houses Erik, his wife (Þjóðhildr Jörundardóttir [Old Norse Þjóð hildr, "nation/people battle"; jara windur, "battle winner; dóttir, "daughter"]) and his son, Leif. Annie and Jack interact with Leif Erikson (Leif the Lucky [Old Norse leifr, "inheritor/relic"], 970s, Icelandic Commonwealth-1018-1025?, Greenland) even as other sources indicate other children.

Narwhal on a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne journeys through 10th-century Greenland afore Greenland thaw and without siblings Freydis Eiriksdottir, Thorvald Eiriksson or Thorstein Eiriksson.

Family history knows as first-born Freydis Eiriksdottir (Old Norse freyja dís, "lady/mistress minor goddess"), third-born Thorvald Eiriksson, fourth-born Thorstein Eiriksson (Old Norse þórr stein, "thunder stone").

Jack lists ringed seals (Pusa hispida) as ice-lodging, silver-gray and smallest of three Greenland ice-seal species even as he logs 15 whale species in Greenland waters. He mentions beluga (Delphinapterus leucas), blue (Balaenoptera musculus), fin (Balaenoptera physalus), narwhal (Monodon monoceros), New-Year new song-singing humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and orca (Orcinus orca) whale species. He notices a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) nestled upon a flat iceberg even as he never names as Greenland shark's (Somniosus microcephalus) a big black tail fin.

No sea-animal sentient species, no wood products occasion Narwhals on a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne observing any Greenland sharks or any specific Greenland trees.

Northern Greenland possesses as low-lying shrubs dwarf willows (Salix herbacea) even as southern Greenland, apart Qinngua Valley, presents bush-high dwarf birches (Betula nana) and dwarf willows.

Qinngua Valley quarters 10- to 39.5-foot- (3- to 12-meter-) tall green alder (Alnus alnobetula) and 13- to 33-foot- (4- to 10-meter-) tall mountain ash (Sorbus decora). Twenty-three- to 26-foot (7- to 8-meter) downy birch (Betula pubescens) and gray-leaf willow (Salix glauca) remain, near Erik's-Inlet barley (Hordeum vulgare) food-cropping for milky-gray mash meals. Animal fur-, grease-, oil-sourcing, fish-full Erik's Inlet sequences sheep (Ovis aries) grazing brown-green fields even as it shelters caribou/reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and seagulls (Larinae family).

Narwhal on a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne tends away from Greenland sharks even as the latter tackle shallower-water prey summers, perhaps off Erik's Inlet.

American author Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) debuted her Magic Tree House children's books series Tuesday, July 28, 1992, with Dinosaurs Before Dark; Narwhall on a Sunny Night, released Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, numbered as the 33rd instalment in the series; "Mary Pope Osborne, author of the Magic Tree House series," portrait obtained Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, by New York-based portrait photographer Elena Seibert: Elena Seibert, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

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Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) and narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are toothed sharks with habitats in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans; on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, Random House Books for Young Readers released Narwhal on a Sunny Night as the 33rd instalment of the Magic Tree House children's book series by American author Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949): Magic Tree House, via Facebook Jan. 7, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/magictreehouse/posts/pfbid0gpXVEKbaxAXj93T7e4WERShZDFawWvA5rpXESW7uTCVYkv6cHzyxQkRs6cuTrTd4l;
Magic Tree House, via Facebook Jan. 7, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2895356920523111&set=pb.100069899166648.-2207520000

American author Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) debuted her Magic Tree House children's books series Tuesday, July 28, 1992, with Dinosaurs Before Dark; Narwhall on a Sunny Night, released Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, numbered as the 33rd instalment in the series; "Mary Pope Osborne, author of the Magic Tree House series," portrait obtained Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, by New York-based portrait photographer Elena Seibert: Elena Seibert, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Pope_Osborne_credit_Elena_Seibert_2012.jpg

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