When I was little, about 8 or 9, I loved this book series called The Magic Tree House series, and one thing I really loved was that Jack, one of the main characters, had glasses, the same as me, and whenever he needed to push his glasses up, I would need to do the same. Looking back, I wonder if I deliberately pushed my glasses up whenever the book said ‘Jack pushed his glasses up…’.
But anyway, after a while, I stopped reading the series. I moved up to bigger books such as the Book of the Stars, Deltora Quest, Harry Potter, ect., and The Magic Tree House was pushed to the back of my mind. When I was 12, I was introduced to a wonderful TV show called Doctor Who. I became obsessed with it, watching every episode I could. Even now, about four years later, if (almost) anyone wants to know something about Doctor Who, they ask me. (And I’ll admit that more than several times, I won’t know the answer, especially if it has nothing to do with the episodes, like ‘who directed Tooth and Claw?’)
So today, I was looking at one of our numerous bookshelves and spotted a Magic Tree House book. I began thinking about it again, and I realized that there were many parallels between Doctor Who and the Magic Tree House books.
But anyway, after a while, I stopped reading the series. I moved up to bigger books such as the Book of the Stars, Deltora Quest, Harry Potter, ect., and The Magic Tree House was pushed to the back of my mind. When I was 12, I was introduced to a wonderful TV show called Doctor Who. I became obsessed with it, watching every episode I could. Even now, about four years later, if (almost) anyone wants to know something about Doctor Who, they ask me. (And I’ll admit that more than several times, I won’t know the answer, especially if it has nothing to do with the episodes, like ‘who directed Tooth and Claw?’)
So today, I was looking at one of our numerous bookshelves and spotted a Magic Tree House book. I began thinking about it again, and I realized that there were many parallels between Doctor Who and the Magic Tree House books.
In MTH: When Annie (Jack’s little sister) found the tree house, Jack mentioned that he had never seen it before.
In DW: The TARDIS comes and goes. Even if it stays in one place, you don’t see it until someone points it out.
In DW: The TARDIS comes and goes. Even if it stays in one place, you don’t see it until someone points it out.
In MTH: The tree house is a time machine that always looks like a tree house. (Weird shape for a time machine, right?)
In DW: The TARDIS is a time machine that always looks like an English Police Box from 1963. The Chameleon Circuit stuck, so when the TARDIS disguised itself as a Police Box, it stayed that way through all time and space.
In DW: The TARDIS is a time machine that always looks like an English Police Box from 1963. The Chameleon Circuit stuck, so when the TARDIS disguised itself as a Police Box, it stayed that way through all time and space.
In MTH: When the pair would time travel, they would point to a book and say “I wish we could go there”, and the tree house would be on its way.
In DW: Although in Doctor Who they didn’t just say where they wanted to go, it is true that the TARDIS is psychic. In one episode, Rory and Amy wanted a door in the TARDIS opened, and the password was "Crimson, eleven, delight, petrichor", so Amy opened the door by thinking about what those words meant to her.
In DW: Although in Doctor Who they didn’t just say where they wanted to go, it is true that the TARDIS is psychic. In one episode, Rory and Amy wanted a door in the TARDIS opened, and the password was "Crimson, eleven, delight, petrichor", so Amy opened the door by thinking about what those words meant to her.
In MTH: Whenever the tree house would transport, the book would say, “The wind started to blow. The tree house started to spin. It spun faster and faster. Then everything was still. Absolutely still.”
In DW: When the TARDIS materializes and dematerializes, on the outside, there’s wind. You can always tell because hair, paper, or anything else will fly around, and even though you can’t visibly tell that the TARDIS is spinning, you can certainly tell that there’s a lot of movement inside.
In DW: When the TARDIS materializes and dematerializes, on the outside, there’s wind. You can always tell because hair, paper, or anything else will fly around, and even though you can’t visibly tell that the TARDIS is spinning, you can certainly tell that there’s a lot of movement inside.
Thaaat’s all I can think of right now, but I’m sure there are more. Of course, I’m not saying that Mary Pope Osborne is guilty of copyright or anything, because the two have very subtle similarities, but I think it’s super cool that a couple of things I love are so very the same. My preferences haven’t seemed to have changed. 
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