It is National Ice Cream Month this month. I thought a round up of 10 ice cream books for kids would be a wonderful way to celebrate. Maybe grabbing one of these ice cream books and reading it while eating some would be fun. You might even take one on a field trip to an ice cream parlor.
Ice Cream Books for Kids
Wemberly’s Ice-Cream Staris a fantastic tales about wanting to share. Wemberly receives a star and feels her stuffed rabbit should have some too. I think lots of children would feel this way about sharing with their special friends.
Curious George and the Ice Cream Surprise shares how George tries to catch an ice cream truck when he decides in he needs a cool treat. With George you always end up with an adventure.
The Ice Cream King while trying to decide what treat to get while visit an ice cream parlor with his mom a boy starts to daydream. He dreams he is in a land of ice cream and he is its king. What a wonderful land that would be to visit on a hot summer day!
Ice Cream: The Full Scoop explains the origins of many ice cream and many frozen dessert related products. I learned a lot about ice cream’s history while reading this book. My son loved getting to see how it is made step by step.
The Sundae Scoop (MathStart 2) aids readers in finding out how many ice cream sundaes they can make using featured ingredients. Math concepts worked on with them makes learning really sweet.
I Scream! Ice Cream!: A Book of Wordlesis a wordless book. What fun it is to picture walk through this book and make up your own story or just interpret the story that is already there in pictures. They story could end up different every time.
Should I Share My Ice Cream? (An Elephant and Piggie Book) is about the hard decision that one has to make when you have something and you think you should share it. If you wait to long, the thing you want to share might melt. Thankfully this book has a happy ending.
Ice Cream Soup (Penguin Young Readers, Level 1)I think we have all had recipes that just didn’t go as we planned them.
Babe Ruth and the Ice Cream Mess (Ready-to-Read Childhood of Famous Americans) shares how after putting baseball through someone’s window he buys him ice cream to make up for it. The Childhood of Famous Americans series was new to me. I think children will really like seeing what famous people were like when they were little.
Spike and Cubby’s Ice Cream Island Adventure takes two dogs on a journey. They say they know how to navigate a boat, but when a storm come up they find the can’t. Ending up on Ice Cream Island is not a bad end to their unpleasant voyage.
You will find more collections of books by theme on my Book Collection board on Pinterest.
Do you have an ice cream book for kids that you love?
Oh my kids would LOVE these books!! They surely love Ice Cream! 🙂
I love a book about ice cream AN learning to share! Although my kids would NEVER s hare their ice cream! And I loved the Curious George Book. I love all of the Curious George books as a matter of fact!
I don’t think we have any of these books!
We have Curious George and hurrah for Nat’l Ice Cream month!
We love those elephant piggie books!!
Nice, JD’s Mom ~~ Good reading for kids. I don’t remember ever reading one. But I Googled for an “Ice cream mystery” and got this video:
ICE CREAM from Nicholas Santos on Vimeo.
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Nice books, I love ice cream!
What great books and fun idea ~ lovely blog and so informative and creative ~ Happy Week to you ^_^
Squee! I LOVE Kevin Henkes! His series on Chester and Arthur and Lily are such priceless classics! I will have to make sure my soon to be born grand baby gets a copy of Wemberly’s Ice Cream Star! Thanks for the heads up! Visiting from LOBS!
Wonderful list. Boy, I am starting to miss picture books already 🙂
“Should I Share My Ice Cream” is my daughter’s favorite book! It’s seriously so good. The author is local where I live and makes appearances often.
All of them about ice cream and yet they are each so diferent! Oh, now I want some ice cream/ :))f
There was a children’s book I read as a young boy about a child who served warm ice cream that didn’t melt. I can’t remember the title for the life of me but I remember that it was one of the first books that really accelerated my imagination. I stumbled across this page while searching for it for my daughter. If anyone can help me out my email address is: daarkenford@gmail.com
I have asked around and haven’t been able to come up with the title.
A fellow blogger pointed out that in Chapter four of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl there is a line, “…Fickelgruber’s factory making an ice cream that would never melt, not even in the hottest sun…”
When I taught Kindergarten, we did an ice cream unit every year! Two of my favorite ice cream books are: ICE-CREAM CONES FOR SALE, by Elaine Greenstein (Scholastic, 2003) and SPLAT THE CAT I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM, by Rob Scotton (Harper Collins, 2015). The first book is a delightful story narrating the history of ice cream and the ice cream cone. The second book is just pure ice cream joy…a class field trip to an ice cream factory! YUM!
The both sound great! Kids would love a virtual field trip to an ice cream factory. You were an amazing kindergarten teacher!