This local celebrity -- now known as "Magician Mike Lane" -- went global in 2014 with the award-winning "The Magic Shop" children's book series. It's no secret that the family man, Staten Island ...

He says growing up in New Mexico, he was “smitten” by his local magic shop ... in his series “While that's intentional, for those that haven't read the first two books, it's not something ...

Joanna Cole, the best-selling author of 'The Magic School Bus' series and more than 250 children's books, has died. She was 75. By Lexy Perez Joanna Cole, the best-selling author of The Magic ...

Joanna Cole, whose Magic School Bus series made science both ... and then in the Netflix version by Kate McKinnon.) The book series won many awards, including an NEA Foundation Award for ...