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The Magic School Bus Inside The Human Body (Paperback)
by Joanna Cole , Bruce Degen (Illustrator)
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Author: Joanna Cole , Bruce Degen (Illustrator)
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pub. in: October, 1990
ISBN: 0590414275
Pages: 40
Measurements: 8.5 x 10.1 x 0.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00172
Other information: Reprint edition
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Ms. Frizzle is showing her students a filmstrip about the human body. "We're going to learn all about ourselves," she says. Then she announces the next field trip - the class is heading to the museum to "see an exhibit about how our bodies get energy from the food we eat." A field trip is never just a field trip when you're taking a ride aboard her magic school bus. The Frizzle and her students stop at a park for lunch before arriving at the museum. Afterward, everyone goes back to the bus except for Arnold! He's still sitting at a picnic table, daydreaming and eating a bag of Cheesie-Weesies. And before the class realizes what is happening, the bus shrinks to the size of a Cheesie-Weesie where it is promptly downed in one gulp by Arnold!
A list of some things Ms. Frizzle educates her class about would include: blood cells (red and white), blood vessels, digestion, germs, the heart, lungs, molecules, oxygen, plasma, the small intestine, etc. At the end of Inside the Human Body is a true-false test to help readers distinguish what things were true in the story and what things were made up. And, of course, Ms. Frizzle drops another clue as to where her next great adventure will take us. Hitch a ride on the magic school bus, and as Ms. Frizzle herself would say, "Seatbelts, everyone!"
Target readers:
Kids aged 4-8
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-About the author:
Joanna Cole loved science as a child. "I always enjoyed explaining things and writing reports for school. I had a teacher who was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She loved her subject. Every week she had a child do an experiment in front of the room and I wanted to be that child every week," she recalls. It's no surprise that Cole's favorite book as a child was Bugs, Insects, and Such.
Ms. Cole has worked as an elementary school teacher, a librarian, and a children's book editor. Combining her knowledge of children's literature with her love of science, she decided to write children's books. Her first book was Cockroaches, which she wrote because there had never been a book written about the insect before. "I had ample time to study the creature in my low-budget New York apartment!" Since then she has written more than 90 nonfiction and fiction books for children, and she is the winner of the 1991 Washington Post /Children's Book Guild Nonfiction award for the body of her work, which also includes the ALA Notable Children's Book How You Were Born, Bony-lets; Cars and How They Go; and with Stephanie Calmenson, The Gator Girls series. Despite the hard work Ms. Cole insists that writing "is the greatest fun in the world." And The Magic School Bus books in particular provide the opportunity for Ms. Cole to combine the two things she loves most: science and humor.
- About the illustrator:
Bruce Degen has loved art ever since he was a child growing up in Brooklyn, New York. "In sixth grade I had a wonderful teacher who would let me stand in the back of the room and paint all the time," Degen remembers. "Once I didn't even have to take a spelling test." When he wasn't drawing and painting, Mr. Degen loved to read books about bears, fantasy and science fiction.
Mr. Degen has written and illustrated several books among them Jamberry and Sailaway Home, and he has illustrated Nancy White Carlstrom's Jesse Bear books and Jane Yolen's Commander Toad series, in addition to The Magic School Bus books. "The nice thing about books is that they go out into the world. When a kid, parent, or teacher tells you how much he or she likes your book, you realize that you've given something that has become part of someone else's life," Degen says.
- How do they work together?
Each The Magic School Bus book begins with in-depth research. Cole does extensive reading, visits museums, and talks with experts. Once she's collected enough information, the author synthesizes the facts into a dummy book with sketch ideas and text for the story, speech balloons, and school reports "written" by Ms. Frizzle's students. Cole also writes the jokes found in every book. Sometimes, a page in the dummy will have a layer of jokes, all on different colored Post-it™ notes. "Eventually when I go see my editor, if he doesn't laugh at the joke on top, I say, 'Let's see what else there is, and we peel them away until we find one that he laughs at," says Cole.
Once Cole has finished her dummy and it has been reviewed by a specialist, it's time for Degen to work on the illustrations. "I take out the dummy Joanna has prepared, I look at all the research books, I look at all the notes, and then I have a cup of coffee," jokes Degen. Next, Degen prepares series of sketches showing how every page of the book will look. The collaborative process really takes off when Degen meets Cole to discuss the sketches. They talk about the story line and decide whether the art works with the action and science in the story, all the while playing off of each other's imagination.
Degen's favorite part of illustrating The Magic School Bus books is making bold fashion statements with Ms. Frizzle's weird outfits. Fans have come to enjoy the wacky dresses, shoes, and accessories, and they especially look forward to seeing Ms. Frizzle's outfit near the end of the book — it usually gives a clue to the next Magic School Bus adventure! Degen is convinced that a line of Ms. Frizzle clothing could be very popular, "especially the shoes." Degen also loves drawing Ms. Frizzle's students. They are all based on children who lived in his old neighborhood in New York, "although they don't know it."
Joanna Cole finds it a challenge to convey accurate science information and tell a humorous story kids will enjoy. When asked why she wrote The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, Cole explained "I wanted to make it fun. I wanted the kids to be going someplace they wouldn't normally want to go, and I wanted Ms. Frizzle to be as enthusiastic as any science enthusiast can be." Cole and Degen also want the science information to be new as well as accurate. For example in The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor, they were able to include little-known information about the deep ocean floor.
In their latest Magic School Bus adventure Ms. Frizzle and her class transform themselves into bees to examine life in the hive. And what's on the horizon after that? With all the ideas they have for future stories, Bruce Degen predicts that he and Joanna will be "in rocking chairs and very old" when they write the last Magic School Bus book.
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Arnold has swallowed the Magic School Bus! Now, instead of seeing an exhibit of the human body at a museum, the class is taking a look at Arnold's stomach, his intestines, his bloodstream, and more from the inside on this heart-stopping fieldtrip - one the reluctant Arnold would be happy to miss.
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School Library Journal, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Time to board the Magic School Bus again with that wild, wacky, and wonderful teacher, Ms. Frizzle. After she teaches her class about the human body and they visit the science museum, Mrs. Frizzle shrinks the bus and the class-except Arnold, who swallows them. This gives Cole and Degen the chance for two parallel stories, inside and outside of Arnold. With the bus inside, Cole explains digestion from the stomach into the small intestines. Then the bus enters a blood vessel where readers can see the plasma, red and white blood cells, and the flow into the heart. From there the class, now out of the bus and garbed in operating room smocks and masks, flows with the blood cells, now with fresh oxygen, to the brain. They climb down the bones of the spine, follow nerves to see muscles work, and then finally catch up with the bus to emerge in the nasal cavity. Meanwhile on part of each facing page, Arnold has coped with being lost and alone and has made it back to the school. With an enormous sneeze he sends the bus out to join him in the parking lot. The class can now chart the body from actual experience. Cole concludes with a true-false test with answers to help readers distinguish reality from fantasy. As readers of the previous Magic School Bus books (Scholastic) know, this is an enjoyable look at factual material painlessly packaged with the ribbons and balloons of jokes and asides meant to appeal to kids. Degen's zany, busy, full-color drawings fill the pages with action and information far beyond the text. Using a variety of visuals, including notes, close-ups, and diagrams along with a variety of realistic kids, he moves the parallel stories to their conclusions. Kids will love this book. |
Kathleen, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
I discovered these books when my son was 5 and we were in a trial year of home schooling. Both of us were fascinated, by Ms. Frizzle, the magic shrinking bus, the fantastic field trips and funny Arnold. The main text is good, the pictures are great and the comic book style conversations and binder paper reports on the sides of the pages are fabulous. We both learned important things about the solar system, human body, water refineries, the earth and the ocean in a very fun, creative, imaginative and impressive way. Read these books with any child you know, laughing and learning together! |
Melissa Skordoulis, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
My daughter is 3.5 years old. I got this book and wasn't sure if it would be too complicated for her. She loves it! I have ordered a few more Magic School Bus books and she can't get enough of them. She even drew a picture of her Daddy's red blood cells! It was hilarious. But best of all, she enjoys them so much. They are her favorite books and she is learning about science. I wish I had these when I was a kid. |
Audrey the librarian, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Ms. Frizzle is taking her class on a memorable field trip through the human body in this entertaining book featuring the beloved eccentric teacher and her curious class. My only complaint is that the pages are so busy with information that it's impossible to sit and really read the whole book, but perhaps it's best to let a child's curiosity guide you through a number of readings rather than trying to get everything in at one sitting. Concepts are expressed clearly and with humor. Justly popular with young students. |
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