I love this author! Her books and the shows that have been produced out of them are awesome! Last summer at Explorers, we read this book during our week about Joanna Cole. Frizzle and her classroom is not an actual person, but the information about the solar system is factual.
We know that it is this genre because Ms. Based on a fictional classroom and characters, it does provide factual information about a concept in the form of a narrative. Degen probably depicted it this way to get the factual information about the planets in the solar system in an interesting way that young children would want to read and understand.Īs the informative nonfiction subgenre of nonfiction, The Magic School Bus has the subgenre of narrative nonfiction. Frizzle’s classroom about the solar system on notebook paper. For example, each text box is depicted as an essay from the children from Ms. Degen also uses text boxes directly over the illustrations. Readers can use this to differentiate between thoughts and dialogue that would not have been made known without the bubbles. For example, about halfway into the picturebook, Arnold is depicted with a typical thought bubble thinking about how he has to go to the bathroom.
Frizzle’s classroom.ĭegen utilizes many different dialogue bubbles throughout the picturebook to represent thoughts and speech. We really did.” This furthers the idea that the audience is transported as a child in Ms. For example, when referring to Janet, Arnold’s know-it-all cousin, the text says, “we tried to be nice to Janet. Cole’s style of this picturebook is very loose and young sounding like the children in Ms.
The audience is directly learning as if they are part of Ms. From the first page, readers see that “we are going to the planetarium to see a sky show about the solar system.” By this use of “we,” readers are dragged along for the adventure, into the solar system, and to explore the planets. This picturebook’s point of view is first person point of view, throwing readers directly into the story. With its fun and detailed illustrations, I loved this picturebook because it provided information on the planets in the solar system in a fun way that is easily understood by children. Growing up with The Magic School Bus, I was immediately excited to read this book. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to each of the planets in the solar system in order to learn all about each of the planets. Frizzle and her class, this time, to outer space. Written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System takes readers on an adventure with Ms.
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