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[] Joanna Cole Bio

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From Wikipedia
 * Joanna Cole** (born August 11, 1944 in [|Newark, New Jersey]),[|[][|1][|]] is a [|United States] author of [|children’s books].[|[][|2][|]] She is most famous as the author of [|The Magic School Bus] series of [|children's books]. Joanna Cole has written over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroaches to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Biography
Cole was born in [|Newark, New Jersey], and grew up in nearby [|East Orange]. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like [|Ms. Frizzle]. She attended the [|University of Massachusetts] and [|Indiana] before graduating from the [|City College of New York] with a B.A. in psychology.[|[][|3][|]] After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a [|librarian] in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at [|Newsweek], then associate editor for the SeeSaw book club at Scholastic, and then a senior editor for [|Doubleday Books] for Young Readers. She went freelance in 1980, writing children's books and articles for Parents magazine. The first Magic School Bus book was written in 1985 and published the following year. The Magic School Bus has enjoyed continued success and has sold millions of copies in multiple languages. The most recent installment in the series is //The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge// (2010). Joanna Cole has continued to write books on many subjects for a range of ages. She currently lives with her husband Philip in Norfolk.

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From Scholastic [] 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.

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