Wild Whale Watch

The Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books #3

by Eva Moore, John Speirs (Illustrator)

The Magic School Sub takes the kids deep into the ocean, where they learn all sorts of fascinating facts about whales.

Genres: Science, Chapter Books, Childrens, Animals, Nonfiction, Middle Grade, Juvenile

75 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Magic School Bus books do a great job of keeping facts at the center of the story, while also creating an interesting plot. In this book, Wanda is afraid of going on the whale watch, and has to confront her fear all day. As they explore, they meet whales and look up facts in their handbook. At the end of the story, Wanda decides whales aren't so scary after all.

[Kristin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good bedtime book for our youngest (8). I have fond memories of The Magic Schoolbus from my childhood, so I was pleased when she brought this home from school for us to read at bedtime. These books always seem to be a good read, and educational as a bonus. Good way to get kids engaged with learning without them thinking about it that way.

[Kaliah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very good book! I learned a lot! it was fun to read and very educational. I like that it has the facts in the back of the book. I even did a journal page about all the facts I learned. I hope my friends read this book too!

[Noelani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since it’s whale-watching season out in the Pacific, we have been focusing on whales this week in science. This is a great support to our studies. Lots of interesting facts about whales, including a type I have never heard of before called a right whale.

[Daria Monahan · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was one of my favorite Chapter books, the science of Whale. Wanda felt scared of Whale about whales will crush her and her friends, but whales don't hurt them. Wanda finally felt better at Whale Watch. In my world, I'd would watching to whales.

[XIS Grade 3 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I adore this book because it has lots of new things about whales. (Giada)

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book because I like whales (especially when their breaching). I didn't like this book because I didn't like the part when Tim and Wanda got stuck in the ocean.

[Darshana Jain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book a lot helped in understanding different types of whales and how idefine it in a fun way. When I read it i didn't realize that i had learnt so much about whales. It is amazing book

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son and I enjoyed reading about the different types of whales and their behaviors.

[Andressa Da Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loooooved this book when I was younger-now I want to adopt a whale

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super great book

[Elissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this with my 9 year old. We learned a lot of new things about whales!

[Shankar B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked when mrs. Frizzle rescued the whale subs.

[Robin Speranza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Toby: I loved learning about whales. The killer whale doesn’t hurt people, humpback whale can eat a thousand fish at the same time because of its big mouth.

[Angel · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is good for a kids book. It is very educational and shows art and informational facts on the topic of the book. There were whale sponsors at the end of the book, which was a nice touch.

[John Teske · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun book and very educational too, even for adults!

Really enjoyed the puns and humor, and of course, I like the fantasy type aspect of this whole concept.

[Kathleen Pine]

The Magic School Bus turns into a boat and later a submarine and takes the students down into the ocean where they get upfront and personal with all kinds of whales. The children break into groups of two and go into mini subs and explore on their own and come across some new species while on their adventure. After being spun out of range with the main sub the students find that the whales managed to help get them to shore to reunite with the group. It was a crazy fun filled field trip that taught them many lessons.

This book teaches interesting facts about whales through an inventive and intriguing tale. Slight suspense and action is used to keep the story moving as children learn all about whales, what they head, reproduction and how they live. The book also provides illustrations and labeled models to help students learn in more detail.

Questions:
- What do you know about whales?
- What kind of whales are mentioned in the book?
- What kind of teeth do whales have?
- What are the different kinds of whales?
- What is the smallest and largest whales?

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Wild Whale Watch is one of many in the Magic School Bus series. The crazy field trips in Ms. Frizzle's science class always involve magic, science and fun.

On this trip, the class learns all about whales. The journey is fun for the reader and fun facts are learned about whales.

The illustrations and format breaks up the information into bite sized pieces that avoids early reader overload. There is a lot of information, but all of it is easily read, interestingly changing formats.

Things I learned about whales that I didn't know are:

* Each type of whale has a different blow pattern
* Flukes are different for each type of whale
* Narwhals are actually whales

This series is a fun way to teach children about the world around them.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this story was very entertaining and helpful for little kids to learn about life. I have always loved reading stories from the Magic School Bus and watching the Cartoon when I was a little girl, and I was non-stop laughing. I know little kids would enjoy reading these stories and watching the cartoons, because they can learn alot about the meaning of things in life. I think a great activity for the students to do in class would be to either take them on a field trip somewhere, where not many of them have been, or have them imagine going on a field trip somewhere, and what they saw and learned, and share with the class.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fascinating tale about whales that discusses various species, where they live, what they eat and their different identifying characteristics and personalities. The story is fun, typical of the Magic School Bus chapter books series for children who are ready for chapter books. And the information is comprehensive, without being too overwhelming or boring. We took our time reading this book, reading a chapter or two each night and we enjoyed reading it together.

new word: callosities

[Asield014 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought that this book was very informational about a specific animal. That animal was a whale and I like to read books about animals. I think that this book was a fun book to read because it was like a mix of adventure and informational.

I would give this book 5 stars because It really inspired me and I also read this book with good fluency and enthusiasm. I also thought that this book was good because since I really like to learn about animals and hold them I would like to become a veterinarian when I grow up. For how much I love to learn about and hold animals.

[Jordan Laskoski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved how this story was very entertaining and helpful for little kids to learn about many things, including life. I have always loved reading stories from the Magic School Bus and watching the Cartoon when I was younger. I think a great activity for the students to do in class would be or have them imagine going on a field trip somewhere, and have them share with the class what they saw and learned. Definitely a fun book and will keep children interested many years to come.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another MSB chapter book. We learned a lot about whales, but they missed the pictures. It does have some small illustrations, but I think it would have been much more effective if I had other pictures to help them visualize what they were listening to.

A good book on whales, but not the best out there.

[Miss Ryoko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Actual rating: 2.5

The Magic School Bus chapter books aren't written the best, but all the great information available within the pages makes up for the lack of well written story. My kids at school like these books, so I'm happy to sacrifice good writing for good content. At least they are learning!

[Erin]

Note: Dad read this to N. Not Mom. September 2018
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[Katherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Magic School Bus Chapter Books are not very interesting or well written. Their only redeeming quality is getting kids who like Magic School Bus picture books weaned off of them.

[Avalon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mrs. Frizzle is always so calm.

[Climber · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is about whales. I liked the whales. There was nothing I didn't like about it. One thing I learned was to be careful when a whale comes close. I would recommend this book.

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

mrs. frizzel is taking the class on another wild adventure, showing the live and world around whales.

[Cynthia Leto · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book! I can see how for a child this would be a great and informative book to read! I recommend this to all marine life lovers.