The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaur Book

First of all, on educational television: sometimes you can learn something from America. School television is synonymous with retro educational television with bright yellow neon writings and people in front of a blackboard. In America, in the 1990s, a TV series about the “Magic School Bus” was developed. A teacher has a very special school bus, with which the children (about 3rd grade) go on school trips, which usually develop rather “unusual”. With a mixture of fantasy and science fiction, the children literally immerse themselves in the respective matter of the episode and learn many new things. In the end, there is still a kind of critical self-reflection with the medium itself, when pupils call the producer of the show and talk about the scientificity of the presentation. Big cinema.
Overall, roughly comparable to the great “Once upon a time life..” Books
From TV to book is often an arduous way, usually more difficult than the other, since the possibilities in this direction seem more limited .

However, the book series succeeds surprisingly well, thanks to a wild mixture of comic, technical book, notebook and a partly quite interesting variation on the subject of science comic. In the cinema, one would say that the “fourth wall” is repeatedly broken.
This encourages readers to discuss and reflect and give the issue more interaction than one can expect.

In the Time of Dinosaurs
A journey through the different ages of dinosaurs, virtually live. Playful and with lots of details about the three epochs of the dinosaurs, always with a nice reference to the present age (that is, a connection between what we can now find in the earth and what really could have been at that time).

The language
Clear, it's English. But no scientific English. Scattered technical terms appear. But my children can understand everything well after 2 years of living in Tanzania, where English is also not the national language.

Conclusion
A kind of insider tip! Ideal for children who grow up bilingual. Or to complement English in primary school. Recommended age: about 6 - 10 years.