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48 pp.
| Scholastic |
September, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-590-44680-0$$15.95
(4)
4-6
Illustrated by
Bruce Degen.
On school vacation, Ms. Frizzle leaves the kids behind to take a time-travel trip to ancient Egypt where she leads a gaggle of her fellow tourists around the sights (and sites) of the Nile valley. This venture into history, in a larger format than the Magic School Bus books, is too diffuse and disorganized to be as effective as that series, but there is lots of information, detail-packed paintings, and sometimes frantic humor.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2001