"Blast off into space with Ms. Frizzle and explore our solar system. It's out of this world! The magic School bus Presents our Solar System is packed with incredible photographs,amazing facts, and everything you ever wanted to know about all eight planets, the Sun, comets, meteors, asteroids, and much, much more." - cover.

Introduces the Amazon River and the rain forest that surrounds it, describing their physical characteristics and the plants and animals that live there, and discusses its people, their history, economic and social conditions, and other details --

Describes the surprising ways in which technology has developed and the inspiration behind some of the great inventions that have shaped our world.

"This book takes readers on a journey through the developmental history of various modes of transportation - from chariots to electric cars, dugout canoes to ocean liners, cable cars to bullet trains, and the many iterations in between. The fascinating stories behind each of these machines join together to reveal a comprehensive history of how new and inventive forms of transportation have built off one another to change our world." -- amazon.com

"We carry our fvorite songs with us in small pocket-sized players today--and listen to them whenever we want to. But how did people enjoy music in the past?,"--page [4] of cover.