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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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...

Review: Fowl Play

Fowl Play By Kristin O'Donnell Tubb New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2024. Fiction 277 pages. Still reeling from her beloved uncle's death, Chloe Alvarez is comforted and confused when at his last will and testament reading, Uncle Will gifts her his African Grey parrot, Charlie. Charlie has a robust vocabulary and loves to make Alexa requests for her favorite songs, but when she starts saying things like, "homicide," and "cyanide," Chloe becomes convinced that Uncle Will may have met his demise by murder instead of a genetic disease, as was previously thought. Ultimately, bringing in her brother, Grammy, and Uncle Frank (and of course Charlie,) Chloe's ragtag and adoring family support her search for answers ---going on stakeouts, engaging in fast pursuits, and searching for clues. But as the suspects stack up and the mystery grows, Chole will learn that the process of death and grieving is complicated, and in the end her Uncle Will's words that, ...

National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry

National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry Edited by J. Patrick Lewis National Geographic, 2012, 183 p. Poetry In this beautiful poetry collection, the National Children's Poet Laureate, J. Patrick Lewis, has teamed up with the amazing photographers at National Geographic. The result is 200 poems about animals, all illustrated with stunning nature photography. The poems are well chosen and include rhyming, free verse, and shape poetry. Some of the poems are funny, many are contemplative and all are nicely typeset on top of the full color photographs. One of my favorites is a shape poem about flamingos, with a photograph of a flock of flamingos which seem to be standing the the shape of a flamingo (how did they do that?). Lewis ends the collection with a brief but interesting section about writing animal poetry. This selection is sure to turn any animal lover into a poetry lover.

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