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But I got to a point where I decided there was something missing - and what was missing was humor! When I was a kid, all the work that I did was funny. I worked in advertising I painted scenery for the opera I was a painter and printmaker I even taught art in high school and college. I went to Cooper Union and got a bachelor's degree in art, and then I went to the Pratt Institute and got a Master of Fine Arts. I went to a special high school for art, LaGuardia High School - you had to take a test to go there. Once I didn't even have to take a spelling test. In sixth grade, I had a wonderful teacher who would let me stand in the back of the room and paint all the time. When I was a kid, I used to draw all the time. Writing is hard work, but it's the greatest fun in the world. I try to ask a question, such as how do scientists guess what dinosaurs were like? Then I try to answer the question as I write the book. In my science books, including The Magic School Bus books, I write about ideas, rather than just the facts. So I thought, why not? Plus, I had ample time to study that creature in my low-budget New York apartment! Since then I have written both nonfiction and fiction books for children. I discovered that there had never been a children's book written about cockroaches before. An article in the Wall Street Journal inspired me to do some research. After graduating from college, I worked as an elementary-school teacher, a librarian, a children's book editor, and a writer. Grade school was very important to me - maybe that's why I ended up writing books for children as an adult. Every week she had a child do an experiment in front of the room, and I always wanted to be that child. I had a teacher who was a little like Ms. I discovered in the fifth grade that I enjoyed explaining things and writing reports for school.