The Magic School Bus

The Magic School Bus is an American edutainment media franchise that includes a book series, television adaptations, a streaming series and various video games. Each story follows the fictional elementary school teacher Ms. Valerie Frizzle and her class, who board a magic school bus that takes them on field trips to unusual times and places, such as the Cretaceous Period, outer space and the inside of a human body. The first book, The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, was published in 1986, and the concept was adapted into an animated television series that premiered on PBS in September 1994. A later animated series, The Magic School Bus Rides Again, premiered on Netflix in 2017. The franchise is placed here because the books came first.