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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/2005-06.
"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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