Joanna Cole
Born August 11, 1944 Passed away on July 12, 2020
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Her biography: I discovered in the fifth grade that I enjoyed explaining things and writing reports for school. I had a teacher who was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She loved her subject. Every week she had a child do an experiment in front of the room, and I always wanted to be that child. Grade school was very important to me – maybe that’s why I ended up writing books for children as an adult.
After graduating from college, I worked as an elementary-school teacher, a librarian, a children’s book editor, and a writer. My first book was Cockroaches. An article in the Wall Street Journal inspired me to do some research. I discovered that there had never been a children’s book written about cockroaches before. So I thought, why not? Plus, I had ample time to study that creature in my low-budget New York apartment!
Since then I have written both nonfiction and fiction books for children. In my science books, including The Magic School Bus books, I write about ideas, rather than just the facts. I try to ask a question, such as how do scientists guess what dinosaurs were like? Then I try to answer the question as I write the book.
Writing is hard work, but it’s the greatest fun in the world.
Learn more about the best-selling Magic School Bus series.—from https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/joanna-cole/
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Books by Joanna Cole https://abookandahug.com/advanced-search/search-results/?query=all&jr_author=joanna+cole&order=alpha
Magic School Bus
I’m a Big Brother
I’m a Big Sister
My Big Girl Potty
My Big Boy Potty
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Reading Rockets video interview with Joanna Cole https://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/colej
