The Magic school bus series was commissioned by scholastic books who wanted a series combining fiction with science to make science more accessible to young children. The first book "at The Waterworks" appeared in 1986, so too late for me to have read any of this series as a child. The series revolves around field trips taken by the extremely eccentric Ms. Frizzle and her class in a magic school bus. I can't say I found the idea especially exciting at first, but I kept finding one glowing reference to this series after another in various home education resources and finally decided to give it a try. I found the series does an outstanding job of taking ...  Read the complete review