This book is part of a book series called Magic School Bus Science Chapter .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

There are 75 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Perfection Learning .

John Speirs studied the work of Pieter Brueghel, Hans Memling, and other 15th- and 16th-century Northern European painters to create the remarkable paintings for this book. He lives in Richmond, England. Eva Moore has been writing and editing children's books for more than forty years. She is the beloved author of many popular books, and lives in Montauk, New York. A graduate of New York City's prestigious Cooper Union Art School, accomplished artist and calligrapher Don Bolognese went on to teach art there and at New York University, Pratt Institute, as well as at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval museum, the Cloisters. He has illustrated more than 90 books for children, many of which he wrote himself; on many others, he has collaborated with his wife, the author and illustrator Elaine Raphael.