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The Rugrats Files is a series of children's books based on the Rugrats animated television series. There are five books in the series, each written by a different author. They have a common theme of time travel, with the babies going back in time to different periods and places.

<i>Rugrats</i> childrens television series

Rugrats is an American animated children's television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The show focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, twins Phil and Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving life experiences that become much greater adventures in the imaginations of the main characters.

Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a widely-recognized concept in philosophy and fiction. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine.

The books

The Rugrats go back to the age of King Arthur, with Tommy's pail standing in for the Holy Grail
The Rugrats join the California Gold Rush in 1849
The Rugrats meet Blackbeard, the eighteenth-century pirate, who kidnaps Angelica thinking she is a princess
The Rugrats meet Leonardo da Vinci in sixteenth-century Italy
The Rugrats go back to the age of the dinosaurs

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