The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth

Author: (USA) Joanna Cole
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Magic School Bus is a natural science supplementary reading book recommended by the National Library for all preschool children and elementary school students in the United States. It is the most popular children's natural science book series in the U.S. Awarded the most valuable children's non-fiction book by the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. Received the Boston Globe Award. Selected as the best children's book by the American Booksellers Association. Awarded the Non-Fiction Honor Book by the American Library Association. Received the Non-Fiction Excellence Award by the American Library Association. Praised by the New York Times Book Review and Amazon readers with five-star reviews.
We live on a beautiful planet. The Earth's surface has land and oceans; the land has mountains and plains. Different types of rocks are exposed on the mountains, while the plains are covered with thick soil. With the advancement of modern science, humans have been sent into space, and we have gained more understanding of the mountains, rivers, and the Earth's interior. We can now collect rock samples from depths of several kilometers to over ten kilometers underground and use various indirect methods to explore the Earth's crust, the deeper mantle, and even the Earth's core.
We cannot directly drill into the Earth's interior to observe it because the temperature is too high and the pressure is too great. However, Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen's The Magic School Bus takes children on an imaginative journey, guiding them to drill into the Earth, observe it, and learn about it. The children distinguish between rocks and soil, see sedimentary rocks formed by deposition in water, igneous rocks that crystallize as magma rises from deep underground, and metamorphic rocks that have been transformed by long-term high temperatures and pressures. In the sedimentary rocks, they find fossils of animals and plants that lived on Earth in different eras. In the caves, they touch stalactites and stalagmites formed by water drops. On the volcanoes, they examine rocks from the Earth's depths, as if hearing the rumbling sounds from below. The school bus even takes the children deep into the Earth's core, over 6,000 kilometers away, and then returns them to the green world on the other side of the Earth through fiery volcanic channels.
The story is both thrilling and suspenseful, with an endless array of imagination that perfectly satisfies children's curiosity and sparks their interest. They don't feel like they're in a classroom because all the learning is seamlessly integrated into real-life scenarios.
Children, welcome to a magical journey! We hope you bring back the specimens you collect and revisit the Earth you've seen in class. When you grow up, work even harder to understand and explore this planet we all call home.