Author/Illustrator: Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Genre: Science Fiction
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: 4th - 5th
Summary:
Ms. Frizzle's class was planting a garden and a photographer was coming by to take a picture of the class with the plants. However, they have to leave to go and get something they left behind. One student is worried they are going to miss the photographer so he suggests that they fly, and when he says that Ms. Frizzle transforms the bus into a ladybug and they begin flying. The teacher decides to stop inside a flower and the students begin to explore the flower. Ms. Frizzle is teaching the student about the parts of a plant and the importance of bees before having to go back for their photo. The ladybug bus gets caught in someone's hair so they have to travel back on someone,s head before they get brushed off. The moment they are off, the bus becomes big again and they make it back just in time for their class photo that will be in the magazine "Plant it!"
In my classroom, I would like to use this during science time before going over plant parts with my students. I think the book is appropriate for upper elementary because it is longer but also full of information that younger students do not need to know yet.
In my classroom, I would read this before going over the parts of a plant than having the student's plant flowers so we can have a garden like Mrs. Frizzles class.
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