The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole

Frizzle's class gets to see the waterworks from the water's point of view. After parking the school bus on a cloud and shrinking to raindrop size, Ms. Frizzle and her students as they follow the trail of water, from its sky-high source to the school bathroom sink on this wet and wild fieldtrip. With updated scientific information, the bestselling science series ever is back The classic title that started the award-winning series Join Ms. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Scholastic is re-releasing the ten original Magic School Bus titles in paperback. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. This book will rarely sit on the shelf.Mary Lou Budd, Mil ford South Elementary School, OhioĬopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. A finishing flourish are the two pages of humorous and lightheart ed notes (for SERIOUS students only) at the text's end. Not such a bad trip after all! Liveliness and humor combine to provide valuable informa tion in a simple, explicit text, totally complemented by cheery cartoon-like illustrations.

A sub sequent classroom mural is drawn of their field trip with the interesting facts of water posted above.

The trip ends with all arriving, drop by drop, in the girls' bathroom in their school as a seventh grader turns on the water faucet. With ``The Friz'' as driver, the children encounter surprise after sur prise, as they are magically clad in scu ba gear while in a tunnel, then slowly ascend to a cloud, where each child dis embarks falls as a drop of water into a mountain stream flows into a reser voir and bounces through the purifica tion system, pipes, and water mains un der the city streets. Frizzle has assigned her class a month-long investigation of how their city gets its water supply, to be followed by a field trip to the water works. Grade 2-4A remarkable meshing of text and illustration make this an outstand ing, lively treatment of a subject for which there is very little written for this age group.

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole