The Magic School Bus is an
edutainment multimedia franchise that consists of
a book series,
a TV series, and
several video games among other things. Each of the stories within the franchise centers on the antics of a fictional
elementary school teacher, Ms. Valerie Frizzle, and her class, who board an
anthropomorphic Type A
school bus, which takes them on field trips to impossible locations, such as the solar system, clouds, the
past, and the human body. The class pet Liz, a
lizard, accompanies the class on their field trips.