Joanna Cole , is a United States writer of books for kids. She is most famous as the writer of The Magic Colledge Bus series of books for kids. Joanna Cole has written over 250 works ranging from her first book Cockroaches to her famous series Magic Colledge Bus.
Cole started life 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 High school of Massachusetts and Indiana before graduating from the City College of New York with a B. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary colledge. 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 Works for Young Readers. She went freelance in 1980, composing books for kids and articles for Parents magazine. The first Magic Colledge Bus book was written in 1985 and released the following year.
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The Magic Colledge Bus has enjoyed continued success and has sold millions of copies in multiple languages. The most recent installment in the series is The Magic Colledge Bus and the Climate Challenge. Joanna Cole has continued to write works on many subjects for a range of ages. She currently lives with her husband Philip in Norfolk.
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