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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Magic School Bus Meets The Rot Squad: A Book About Decomposition
Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 35 pages
In this simplified series, Ms. Frizzle and her students embark on numerous entertaining scientific journeys. The books are based on the PBS television series.
A Butterfly Is Patient
Dianna Hutts Aston · 40 pages
The creators of the award-winning ***An Egg Is Quiet*** and ***A Seed Is Sleepy*** have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to the world of butterflies. From iridescent blue swallowtails and brilliant orange monarchs to the worlds tiniest butterfly (Western Pygmy Blue) and the largest (Queen Alexandra's Birdwing), an incredible variety of butterflies are celebrat
The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up: A Book About Deserts
Joanna Cole, Suzanne Weyn, Bruce Degen · 32 pages
Ms. Frizzle's class is building a wonderful diorama of the desert, but learning about such a harsh environment has gotten Phoebe worried. What happens to all the animals in the desert without any water to sustain them in the scorching heat? Ties in with the PBS-TV series beginning in October 1995. Full color.
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow
Bruce Degen · 32 pages
Frogs
Nic Bishop · 48 pages
Nic Bishop's photographs show all different kinds of frogs, big ones, very tiny ones, frogs with beautiful colors of skin, and one frog you can see inside of.
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do
Steve Jenkins, Robin Page · 32 pages
Yucky Worms
Vivian French · 32 pages
While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Eye to Eye: How Animals See The World
Steve Jenkins · 32 pages
Profiles a series of animals with unusual eyes and explains how such animals use their uniquely evolved eyes to gain essential information about the biological world. This book explain how, for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense. The simplest eyes, clusters of light-sensitive cells, appeared about 600 million years ago.
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
Ruth Heller · 44 pages
A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs
Joanna Cole · 30 pages
Ralphie's sick and can't host the Frizzle News Network TV show on health--until Ms. Frizzle and the gang travel inside his bloodstream to learn how the human body fights germs.
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
Joyce Sidman · 40 pages
Poems and factual information about some of the creatures that live on Planet Earth.
Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes
Nicola Davies
There are living things so tiny millions could fit on a dot. Although they are invisible, they are everywhere and they multiply very quickly. They are vital for life on earth, and do all sorts of things – from giving us a cold and making yoghurt to wearing down mountains and helping to make the air we breathe. With charming illustrations by Emily Sutton, this friendly, clever book by Nicola Davies
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever t
The Magic School Bus Spins A Web: A Book About Spiders
Tracey West, Joanna Cole · 32 pages
Rain Forests
Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne · 119 pages
Ms. Frizzle and her class travel to the Costa Rican Rainforest and find what they need to create a rainforest replica right at the school!
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Kate Messner · 53 pages
In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt. Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year! Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt ex
Dolphins And Sharks
Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce · 128 pages
Discusses dolphins and sharks, their ocean habitats, and general information about oceans and oceanography.
The Magic School Bus Gets Ants In Its Pants: A Book About Ants
Linda Ward Beech, Joanna Cole · 32 pages
Ms. Frizzle's class has to create a project for the school science fair. But they need the perfect idea! When Keesha brings an ant to the classroom, the kids decide to make a movie about ants. They'll make Keesha's ant a star! But Keesha's ant disappears, and the kids have no choice but to follow...all the way into an anthill. And surprise! The anthill is crawling with activity! Come along on a
A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'Engle · 211 pages
A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet). It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Bla