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Ice Cream
Product Code: 61123 ISBN: 978-0-88106-112-3 Binding Information: Paperback Ages: 5 - 8 Availability: Out of stock. Backorder policy Price: $6.95 Ice Cream Improves Brain Power.
CBC/IRA Children's Choices
Illustrations dripping with ooey-gooey goodness and bubblegum-rainbow-candy-coated color are a delight page after page. From the "water ices" that Marco Polo brought home from China, to the first ice cream factory built in 1848, this unique view of ice cream history illustrates how this diverse confection affected civilization–and how civilization affected ice cream. Jules Older and Lyn Severance team up again to bring you a wildly witty and sweetly delectable story of everyone's favorite treat–complete with resources for further study and quizzes to test your new-found knowledge.
Reviews The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - June 30, 2002
Older tackles the history of frozen confections, from the days when "guys with big arms and sharp saws used to cut ice out of frozen lakes," through innovations in ice-cream technology--"Now, instead of turning and scraping a pot, all you did was spin a crank until your arm fell off"--to current statistics on ice-cream consumption--"Canadians: You've dropped from fifth to seventh place. If you want to be in the top five, you've got to apply yourselves." Cartoon artwork is sprawling and splashy, outlined in thick black line to pack an even heavier visual punch.
New York Times Book Review - May 31, 2002
Jules Older's Ice Cream is as different-looking as can be--bold, brassy, cartoony, wise-cracky in a manner that will appeal to its older age group, 7 and up. If its look is familiar, that's because the artist, Lyn Severance, also designed the Ben & Jerry's cartons.The information here is also completely different. There is nary a cow in sight. Instead we start with ice and "guys with big arms" who once chopped ice in the wintertime. If you really want to know, you can study a double-page spread that goes into great detail about the workings of an ice cream freezer. But most readers will surf right into "Great Moments in Ice Cream History." Here the author views ice cream through the lens of geography and world history. He scoops up some tasty stuff--including Thomas Jefferson's vanilla ice cream recipe (who knew that a founding father might have introduced flavored ice cream to the colonies?). We find out one traditional explanation for why "sundae" is spelled like that (it has to do with religious people not wanting to mix something so sinful with Sunday). We applaud whoever decided that new immigrants on Ellis Island should be able to top off their first American meal with ice cream. Older reveals the location of the world's biggest ice cream factory (Bakersfield, Calif.), and tells us the state that slurps the most (Utah), as well as stories of people who invented the cone and all other sublime incarnations of ice cream. He even reveals the worst flavors ever concocted: lox and bagel, chili, kumquat, to name a few. In Bar Harbor, Me., you can eat chunks of fresh lobster in your ice cream--if you dare. The layout occasionally confuses, but once again the topic seduces, and readers will be highly motivated to forge on. The heavy black line and the bright, flat colors of a comic book unify the frothy facts, and a time line helps us keep it all straight. the cherry on top is a list of ice-cream-related books and Web sites. School Library Journal - May 31, 2002
Lighthearted and informative, this book covers the making, history, and trivia of ice cream. The text is chock-full of facts along with wisecracks. The facts, both common and uncommon, are all presented in a chatty, conversational style, often with an appropriate disclaimer, since much of ice cream history legend. The illustrations spill over into the text in both single and double-page format; a time line winds its way along the bottom of the pages. The work is an artistic delight with large, bright '70's-style drawings and hand-drawn headings. Thankfully, each page has a line border, making the whole wild thing a lot easier to follow. Severance designed the containers for Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and the book has that flavor, although the company is never mentioned. While it looks like fun and it is, this title has all the information needed for reports. The three Web sites listed are useful, but the "Book List" appears to be more of a bibliography. That aside, this title is a plus for any collection.
Publishers Weekly - February 28, 2002
For dessert, try Ice Cream from the team behind Cow, Jules Older and Lyn Severance. The author chronicles the history of the confection introducing such famous figures as Marco Polo, who brought back "water ice" from China in the 13th century and Augustus Jackson, the White House chef--and "probably America's first black ice cream manufacturer"--who made the dessert for First Lady Dolly Madison. A timeline along the bottom of each page takes readers along the ice cream continuum. Severance, who designed the look of Ben and Jerry's carton art, brightens up the pages with bold graphics.
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