Cole died on Sunday of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She was 75.
series in 1986 with illustrator Bruce Degen, after the publisher's senior editorial director Craig Walker kept getting requests from teachers for children's books about science, according to AP.follows elementary school teacher Ms. Valerie Frizzle and her students as they go on field trips on a magic bus.
Dick Robinson, Scholastic's chair and CEO, said Cole"had the perfect touch for blending science and story." "Joanna’s books, packed with equal parts humor and information, made science both easy to understand and fun for the hundreds of millions of children around the world who read her books and watched the award-winning television series," Robinson said."Her Ms. Frizzle led a group of eager and curious students on countless adventurous trips on theScholastic said the series has more than 93 million copies in print in 13 countries and has won a number of prestigious book awards.
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