--- title: "Sylvan Learning Partners With Random House Children’s Books and Author Mary Pope Osborne To Excite Students to Read Over Winter Break" url: https://burnaze.com/article/2b4d3a71-6e5f-4d71-a8c2-b8364f45fd38 source: "1851 Franchise" original_url: https://1851franchise.com/sylvan-learning-partners-with-random-house-childrens-books-and-author-mary-pope-osborne-to-excite-students-to-read-over-winter-break-2714506 category: "Tutoring" industry: "Education & Childcare" segment: "Tutoring" published: 2020-12-16T13:08:55.000Z modified: 2026-11-01T01:48:32.118Z image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/5a2aa82ddbba92e2fb211c914763e8f25866.jpg --- # Sylvan Learning Partners With Random House Children’s Books and Author Mary Pope Osborne To Excite Students to Read Over Winter Break **TL;DR:** Sylvan Learning has partnered with Random House Children's Books and author Mary Pope Osborne to launch a reading program, the Sylvan Reading Adventures Book Club. The program will feature Osborne's 'Magic Tree House' book series and will be available for free on December 10. *originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2020-12-16. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/sylvan-learning-partners-with-random-house-childrens-books-and-author-mary-pope-osborne-to-excite-students-to-read-over-winter-break-2714506).* ## Key facts - Sylvan partners with Random House - 143 million Magic Tree House books sold - Program available for free on December 10 ## Story Sylvan Learning is helping inspire students to continue reading over winter break with its first-ever Sylvan Reading Adventures Book Club. Sylvan is kicking off its inaugural book club with a bang, partnering with Random House Children’s Books and bestselling author Mary Pope Osborne to bring her “Magic Tree House” book series to life in an exciting and interactive new format that goes way beyond just reading. Starting December 10, www. SylvanNation.com will host the first Reading Adventures Book Club which will incorporate videos, crafts, writing and other activities to guide children through a magical adventure to enjoy at home with beloved characters Jack and Annie. ## Book club details To cap it all off, at the end of the journey, participants will be able to enter a Sylvan Nation sweepstakes to win their very own custom “Magic Tree House” library. “Random House Children’s Books and author Mary Pope Osborne are thrilled to partner with Sylvan Learning on this exciting and interactive solution to keeping children reading and learning while home for the holidays,” says Kerri Benvenuto, Vice President, Marketing, Licensed & Proprietary Brands. “Participants will get to use their imaginations to draw, write, and create along with Mary’s beloved Magic Tree House characters Jack and Annie.” Part of Sylvan’s December “Our Gift to You” campaign, the Sylvan Reading Adventures Book Club is the perfect holiday gift for families across the country who are already contending with a year of disrupted learning and want to keep their children excited about reading over the break. ## Program benefits It’s also a welcomed new program for Sylvan’s hundreds of franchisees, who can bring the book club to their locations to offer in-center or online. Sylvan Learning will be providing resource packets, activity sheets and online extension activities for families to make the most of the program on www. SylvanNation.com. “As winter vacations approach, we are doing everything we can to find fun new ways to keep kids learning and reading over the break,” said Amy Pryzwara, Sylvan Learning’s chief marketing officer. “We know that children are going to absolutely love this amazing collection of videos, crafts and activities that we’ve packaged into an engaging and interactive experience for the holiday season.” The first-ever Sylvan Reading Adventures Book Club will be available for FREE to all Sylvan Nation families starting on December 10. To learn more, create a free Sylvan Nation account at www. SylvanNation.com. The Magic Tree House series is an international phenomenon and has sold more than 143 million books worldwide since its debut in 1992, and has been translated into 35 different languages in more than 100 countries around the world. - 34 Magic Tree House fiction titles - 27 Merlin Missions fiction titles - 44 nonfiction Fact Trackers - 1 Super Edition - 1 Journal and Survival Guide - 2 fully illustrated deluxe editions All Magic Tree House books are available in print and as ebooks and Listening Library audiobooks, which are all narrated by Mary Pope Osborne. Sylvan Learning is the leading provider of personal learning for students in grades K-12, with more than 40 years of experience and more than 750 points of presence throughout North America. ## Entities - 1851 Franchise (publication) - Education & Childcare (sector) - partnership (topic) - Sylvan Learning (company) - education (topic) - reading program (topic) --- Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/sylvan-learning-partners-with-random-house-childrens-books-and-author-mary-pope-osborne-to-excite-students-to-read-over-winter-break-2714506). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/2b4d3a71-6e5f-4d71-a8c2-b8364f45fd38).