Carolyn Bracken

Mudge looks forward to the Mother's Day surprise that Henry and his father cook up for Henry's mother.

The students in Ms. Frizzle's class embark on another journey when the Magic School Bus tours a decomposing log that introduces the latter end of the life cycle and teaches readers that there's more to rot than meets the nose.

Henry and his dog Mudge tangle with a grumpy goose when they visit a farm.

Henry is excited when his Uncle Jake builds him a tree house but worries that his dog Mudge will not be able to enjoy it with him.

Dressing as princesses and knights, Fancy Nancy and her friends go off in search of a unicorn in her backyard.

Ms. Frizzle's class is drawing dinosaurs. But Dorothy Ann's picture is of her pet parrot. Ralphie tells her a parrot is a bird, not a dinosaur. Who is right? Take off with Ms. Frizzle's class and find out all kinds of facts about dinosaurs.

As her third-grade class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy enthusiastically plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.

Fancy Nancy dresses as a bunch of grapes for the Halloween party, but when the balloons she uses as grapes begin to pop, she thinks her costume is ruined.

What could a tunafish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum have in common? Come on an underwater adventure in the magic school bus and find out!

Ms. Frizzle takes her class inside a pinball machine that is played with light pulses instead of steel balls, to learn the secrets of color and light.