Creator of beloved books, which sold tens of millions of copies, has died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosisThe author Joanna Cole, whose Magic School Bus books transported millions of young people on extraordinary and educational adventures, has died at age 75.Scholastic announced that Cole, a resident of Sioux City, Iowa, died Read more
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