juvenile literature

Describes how various animals, including an octopus, a bombadier beetle, a puff adder, and a gliding frog, escape danger.

When Ms. Frizzle takes her class to a dinosaur dig to look for Maiasaura nests, the Magic School Bus turns into a time machine and transports them back into prehistoric times--when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Presents information on storms, in simple text with illustrations, and describes the atmospheric conditions that help create thunderstorms, hailstorms, lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes and includes an explanation of how violent weather affects the environment, the land, and the people.

A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to experience a hurricane firsthand, from air, sea, and land.

On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth.

Instructions for experiments, each introducing a different chemistry concept and demonstrating that chemistry is a part of our everyday life.

Introduces the concepts of volume, weights and measures.

Presents some ancient mythological beliefs about the universe.

Introduces Roman numerals, and by counting pigs in the illustrations the reader can reinforce the mathematical concept.

Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day.