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The
Book
- A time traveling device shaped like a book featured on the
education cartoon series TIME WARP TRIO/DSK/NBC/2005.
"The Book" is the property of Joe, a 10-year-old boy who lives
in Brooklyn, New York with his family which consists of his mom,
his dad his sister, Anna, his Uncle "Mad" Jack, and his brother,
Uncle Joe, an eccentric magician. It was Uncle Joe who changed
Joe's life forever, when he appeared at the front door of Joe's
brownstone house and gave Joe a birthday present wrapped in
brown paper and a red ribbon.
After Uncle Joe magically disappeared on his doorstep, Joe ran
to the kitchen where he opened the package in front of his two
best friends, Sam and Fred. The present was a book with a
colorful and elaborate binding.
As the boys paged through the book, it was filled with pictures
from history. But when Joe and the boys paused to gaze at an
image of a pirate ship and made a wish about being pirates, they
were unexpectedly transported into the past where they meet
Black Beard the Pirate. And thus began their first adventure in
time.
The boys finally returned from the past when they dug up a
treasure chest filled with gold and jewels. Seeing "The Book"
sitting atop the treasure, the boys quickly snatched it up, just
as Black Beard the Pirate was about to kill them. With a blink
of an eye, they were transported back to Joe's kitchen table in
Brooklyn.
Safely returned to their correct time, the boys promised never
to open "The Book" again, but the temptation to look inside the
magical tome was too great, and the boys were to have many more
misadventures in time and space -- meeting such people as
Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Leif Erikson, Sacagawea, the Mayan High
Priest of Chichen Itza and a Neanderthal named Duh.
Eventually, during a trip to the future of 2205, the boys meet
their great granddaughters Jodie, Samantha, and Freddi who
continue to do their own share of time traveling, courtesy of
"The Book" which Joe had bequeathed to Jodie. Now both team of
time travelers bump into each other as they criss-cross the
landscape of time.
TRIVIA NOTE: The program is based on the "Time Warp Trio" book
series by Jon Scieszka whose first book "Knights of the Kitchen
Table" was published in 1991. Boston PBS station WGBH created
the animated TV series in conjunction with digital animation
studio Soup2Nuts. The program first airs Saturday mornings on
NBC, and then Monday afternoons on the Discovery Kids Channel.
The character "Mad" Jack is hidden in each episode. He has been
stealing artifacts through time. His actions will upset the time
continuum (cause it to collapse) if each stolen item is not
returned to it proper place in time. Among the artifacts stolen:
- Black Beard's skull candlestick
- Fred's cow skull
- Kakapupahet's game ball
- Thomas Edison's invention plans
- Leif Erikson's seal meat dinner
- Dorkius's secret scroll
- Honda's Samurai helmet
- Temüjin's sword and hat
- Sani-Tp's toilet roll robot
- Queen Jinga's shield and spear
- Napoleon's hat
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