Merhorses and Bubbles: What a Fish Actually Breathes
Ask most adults what a fish breathes and they will say water, or say oxygen and mean the oxygen inside the water molecule. Both are wrong, and the right answer...
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Caterflies and Ice: The Book Where Zoey Gets It Wrong
A storm traps a clutch of eggs, Zoey tries to save them, and she makes it worse. Books for six year olds almost never let the helpful child be the...
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Bips and Roses: When the Sick Patient Is a Plant
There is no creature to feel sorry for in this one. There is a rose bush, some hippogriff eggs on a clock, and a patient you can finally split into...
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The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor: Life Without Sun
There is a lifeguard in this book and he spends the whole story trying to get a class of children out of the water. He loses. What is down there...
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth: How We Know
This is the only book on the shelf whose entire subject is a place no human being has ever visited or ever will. Everything drawn in it was worked out...
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Inside Your Own Eye: The Magic School Bus and the Senses
Cover one eye and try to thread a needle. That is the method of this whole book. Every claim Ms. Frizzle's class rides through can be checked the same afternoon,...
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