High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Magic School Bus is a series of children`s books about science written by author Joanna Cole. They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar system, clouds, the past, and the human body. The books are written in the first person from the point of view of an unnamed student in "the Friz`s" class. The class pet, Liz, a lizard, accompanied the class on their field trips.