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Joanna Cole

Born

in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

August 11, 1944

Died

July 12, 2020

Website

http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/inde...

Genre

Children's Books, Science

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Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a le ...more

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Average rating: 4.30 · 146,309 ratings · 3,953 reviews · 522 distinct works • Similar authors

	Inside the Human Body (The Magic School Bus, #3) 4.28 avg rating — 34,749 ratings — published 1989 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in the Solar System (The Magic School Bus, #4) by Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 9,859 ratings — published 1990 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (The Magic School Bus #1) by Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 7,049 ratings — published 1986 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Ocean Floor (The Magic School Bus, #5) by Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator), Lívia Miklós (translator) 4.31 avg rating — 6,425 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs by Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator), John Speirs (Illustrator) 4.42 avg rating — 5,981 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains by Joanna Cole, Carolyn Bracken (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 4,614 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (The Magic School Bus #2) by Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 4,318 ratings — published 1987 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus Sees Stars: A Book About Stars by Joanna Cole, Nancy White, Art Ruiz (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 3,689 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book About Kitchen Chemistry by Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 3,534 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color by Joanna Cole, Jocelyn Stevenson, Carolyn Bracken (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 2,901 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Joanna Cole

The Magic School Bus (13 books)
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Joanna Cole,

Bruce Degen (Illustrator)

4.27 avg rating — 71,365 ratings

Magic School Bus TV Tie-Ins (28 books)
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Joanna Cole,

Art Ruiz (Illustrator),

Bruce Degen (Illustrator)

4.37 avg rating — 47,323 ratings

The Magic School Bus Science Readers (22 books)
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Joanna Cole,

Carolyn Bracken (Illustrator)

4.19 avg rating — 4,522 ratings

Ms. Frizzle's Adventures (MSB) (3 books)
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Joanna Cole,

Bruce Degen (Illustrator)

4.07 avg rating — 767 ratings

The Clown-Arounds (5 books)
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Joanna Cole,

Jerry Smath (Illustrator)

4.36 avg rating — 367 ratings

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