**In reference to textually, see the Jackson quotes, the 2nd of which is especially bad for how much it gets wrong about living animals (I.e. rex ate by scavenging hunting"? Why not "T. See the 2nd Jackson quote Where else would one eat meat other than from bodies? Also, why "T. 1st, see the 1st Jackson quote Then, see reason #1 in my review of Schwabacher's book: )/weird (E.g. On page 15, 1 sidebar reads "A hadrosaur's crestwould have made the dinosaur's calls sound much louder", & another reads "A hadrosaur's crest might have been usedfor making loud calls")/simplified (E.g. *In addition to the interchangeable dialogue, the writing is annoyingly redundant (E.g.
#BUS PRESENTS SERIES#
In other words, what's the purpose of "a nonfiction companion" that reads like a lesser version of its fictional counterpart?*ģ) The OG series never needed "a nonfiction companion", especially 1 as textually/visually bad as Bus:** For 1, as mentioned above, most of its text is informational (& thus, nonfiction) For another, it lists the American Museum of Natural History, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, & the Museum of the Rockies as sources of "helpful advice and consultation" (& thus, more info). With a small amount of narrative main text & lots of informational sidebar text).
#BUS PRESENTS TV#
When I 1st saw Jackson's "The Magic School Bus Presents: Dinosaurs: A Nonfiction Companion to the Original Magic School Bus Series" (henceforth Bus), I thought something like, "What's the purpose?" In this review, I list the 3 main reasons why that is.ġ) Despite its title, Bus has almost nothing to do with the OG series: For 1, it's neither authored by Cole nor illustrated by Degen For another, only characters from the TV series are included Furthermore, all their looks (illustrated by Bracken) are based on the TV characters, yet all their dialogue is interchangeable, in which case, what's the purpose of focusing on a core cast?Ģ) While the OG series has an actual story, Bus is just a bunch of stuff happening in no particular order, yet it's formatted just like the OG series (I.e. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic." Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. Click on the links above to see examples of my work.īut first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I'm available for project development, writing, project management and I also work as a packager. "I'm a non-fiction author and project editor (plus I do a bit of journalism).
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