Five Faves: National Ice Cream Scoop Day

Today is National Ice Cream Scoop Day! So grab and cone and one of these books to celebrate!

Pick Me!

By Max Amato

New York : Scholastic Press, 2022. Picture Book

Bean, Cotton Candy, Fudge, Mint and Very Berry compete against each other to be picked by the reader until Rocky Road shows up with a bite taken out of him. Panic sets in when they realize what getting chosen means.

Once Upon a Unicorn’s Horn

By Beatrice Blue

Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. Picture Book

June finds tiny horses learning to fly in the magical forest by her house. One little horse is unable to fly, and June is determined to help. Despite trying what seems like everything, the day ends, and the little horse is still unable to fly. June doesn’t give up and with the help of her parents, she learns that the magic was deep inside all along.

Keith the Cat with the Magic Hat

By Sue Hendra

New York : Aladdin, 2018. Picture Book

Keith is walking along one day when an ice cream cone flies through the air landing on his head. Other cats begin laughing at him and to hide his embarrassment, he tells them that it’s actually a magic hat. Different situations arise that make them believe he really is magic.

Vanilla Bean: A Story about Trying New Things

By Katie Turner

Rolling Meadows, Illinois : Cottage Door Press, [2021]. Picture Book

Bean, the puppy, loves vanilla ice cream. Plain vanilla with nothing else in it. He only eats regular vanilla ice cream. One day, at Miss Sundae’s ice cream shop, there’s an accident and rainbow sprinkles get EVERYWHERE! Even on his vanilla ice cream cone. Bean then must decide if he’s up for trying something new!

Ice Cream : The Full Scoop

By Gail Gibbons

New York : Holiday House, 2006. Informational.

Ice Cream has been around for a long time. Some believe it's been around for 3,000 years! Learn the history of how ice cream came to be and how it has been made throughout the years.

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Stand Tall by Joan Bauer

Stand Tall By Siena Siegel by Joan Bauer Putnam, 2002, 182 pgs Realistic Fiction Tree is 12 years old and over 6 feet tall. That would be great if he were a basketball player, but he is not. Dealing with his unusual size is not Tree's only challenge. Tree's parents have recently gone through a divorce, and his grandfather has had his leg amputated as the result of an old Vietnam War injury. The strength of this book is the characterizations. All of the main characters are dimensional and sympathetic. Bauer sets the characters in real and often funny family situations. Best of all is the character of Tree. He is boy with a heart to match his stature. This is a great book for boys or girls ages 9-12, as a read aloud or for individual reading. This book could also be a good Rx book for children whose families are going through divorce, or for anyone who feels like they don't fit in.

Review: Cincinnati Lee, Curse Breaker

Cincinnati Lee, Curse Breaker By Heidi Heilig New York: Greenwillow Books, 2025. Fiction. 291 pages. Thanks to Cincinnati Lee's no good, dirty rotten, artifact stealing great great great grandfather, Cincinnati's family is now cursed and Cincinnati feels like it's up to her to break the curse. Which involves trying to steal the artifacts back from museums that her grandfather robbed from graves and archeological sites around the world and return them to their countries of origin. But when Cincinnati's first artifact stealing mission goes awry, she decides it might be more effective to steal an all-powerful artifact herself that she can use to break the curse - The Spear of Destiny. Unfortunately her race for the spear will pit her against art smugglers and thieves intent on finding the ancient artifact themselves. If you are looking for an Indiana Jones read-alike, this is the perfect for you! Heavy on the adventure with similar levels of mysticism to those seen in th...

Review: The Factory

The Factory By Catherine Egan New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2025. Fiction. 306 pages. Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle has been invited to join the Factory, a secretive research facility in the desert which ostensibly extracts renewable energy from the electromagnetic fields of its young recruits. But Asher soon realizes something sinister is going on. Kids are getting sick. The adults who run the Factory seem to be keeping secrets. And the extraction process is not only painful and exhausting, but existentially troubling. Asher makes a handful of new friends who help him with an investigation that turns into a resistance, which turns into...a cliffhanger! The Factory is a page-turning sci-fi with multidimensional characters, an intriguing plot, and refreshingly straight-forward writing. Egan weaves in detail about climate crises and social unrest, making the story's dystopian setting feel rich and plausible. With its sophisticated themes and accessible storytelling, I would recomm...

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