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Ice Cream Soup
[Penguin Young Readers Level 1]
What happens when you try to make an ice cream cake, but add too much stuff? You end up with ice cream soup! This original Level 1 reader with rhyming text is perfect for beginning readers.
What happens when you try to make an ice cream cake, but add too much stuff? You end up with ice cream soup! This original Level 1 reader with rhyming text is perfect for beginning readers.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published May 16, 2013
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August 28, 2022
Read for my toddler's bedtime. The boy wants to make a cake. He takes out the biggest bowl and begins putting in ice cream scoops and pat it down and add some more toppings and more ice cream.
October 21, 2017
it's funny! it's messy and H enjoyed when he added the different toppings especially the gummy bears. it's great for starting to learn to read, prompting kids to talk about what he's adding next. we also enjoyed the two little kitten companions
April 10, 2017
What an adorable story! My five year old loved it. It had a few difficult words, and is longer than most books she reads independently, but she pulled through with a bit of prompting. Perfect for slightly more confident almost-level 2 readers. Great way for them to learn spellings of colours and numbers upto five too.
September 22, 2020
Fiona read this to me when I was feeling unwell, and there is nothing so delightful as being read to by your second-grader.
April 29, 2024
When kids make up their own recipes, they'll learn something. Even if not what they expected.
The narrator (who has no name) has "a plan." Evidently he also has access to the family kitchen, and everything in it.
Of course he makes a mess. This is funny, as long as readers know they will not have to clean anything up.
Not for the first time when reading a book for young children, I wonder:
Where are the parents?
FIVE STARS for an entertaining book that will be easier to read than the dessert concoction will be easy for SOMEBODY IN THAT HOME to clean up. Glad it's not you or me, Goodreaders.
The narrator (who has no name) has "a plan." Evidently he also has access to the family kitchen, and everything in it.
Of course he makes a mess. This is funny, as long as readers know they will not have to clean anything up.
Not for the first time when reading a book for young children, I wonder:
Where are the parents?
FIVE STARS for an entertaining book that will be easier to read than the dessert concoction will be easy for SOMEBODY IN THAT HOME to clean up. Glad it's not you or me, Goodreaders.
August 24, 2023
Ice Cream Soup is always an exciting book to read. There's ice cream, a mess, and cats hanging about. The amount of learning activities that can be done around this story are endless not just for preschool children but older early learners as well.
To get ideas on some activities to pair with Ice Cream Soup visit The Book Banana by Kathleen the Bookworm and on Kathleen the Bookworm's Instagram.
To get ideas on some activities to pair with Ice Cream Soup visit The Book Banana by Kathleen the Bookworm and on Kathleen the Bookworm's Instagram.
May 21, 2023
This was the cutest read! We read it to our kids at our summer kickoff party because we happened to be making sundaes, and it was a huge hit by both kids and parents!! It kept them engaged, especially since they wanted to see what would happen next; the bonus is that this is an easy reader, which lets a young reader hone their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills
December 3, 2017
This is a cute beginning reading book. The text is simple, but the story and illustrations are very engaging. Any child would relate to the desire to make a gigantic ice cream cake, but would realize that this character has overdone it. Love it!
February 26, 2019
I love the rhyming cadence of this one--I can't fathom eating like ten scoops of ice cream in one sitting, ahhhh! Although the sundae he makes does look pretty good. He tries making an ice cream cake but it all just melts together
October 10, 2019
I picked this up because another librarian recommended it to me for my "Letter I" story time. It's just not a good read aloud, there's no real story to it. But, it is a leveled reader and it's great at that.
January 9, 2023
Funny and entertaining. For children 3-6 years old.
It has appropriate, narrow range of vocabulary, repeated "oo" phonics. Most importantly, although the book might not seem attractive to an adult, children love it.
It has appropriate, narrow range of vocabulary, repeated "oo" phonics. Most importantly, although the book might not seem attractive to an adult, children love it.
June 10, 2017
Wants to make an ice cream cake, instead makes soup.
October 13, 2017
I know this is a level reader book but the story did not seem very strong in relation to character development and story development.
February 28, 2018
it was very funny.
August 6, 2019
Countdown to Kindergarten: Letter I. NC Digital Kids. When a boy tries to make an ice cream cake, he finds that it doesn't last very long.
November 17, 2019
A preschool and up easy reader about a boy making an ice cream cake and all the stuff he adds to it.
April 24, 2020
Enqi said she like it because she like ice cream, that makes her feel cool
November 27, 2020
For emergent readers this is a fun read because what kid doesn't love ice cream? The boy in this story goes wild and makes an ice cream sundae any child would fantasize about.
December 14, 2020
"I liked it"
August 17, 2022
Although it is in an easy reader format, still works great as a book for preschool story time on ice cream.
January 19, 2023
This was a good book for my granddaughter who is learning to read
August 18, 2025
Perfect rhyme pace escalating upwards with new milestone!
November 14, 2015
Summary: This little boy is about to make the world's first Ice Cream Sundae Mountain, and he has all the ingredients to do so. One thing after another, the ice cream pile gets bigger and bigger. Then, something horrible happens and the boy has to find a way to fix this ice cream mess! What does the little boy end up doing with all that ice cream?
Activity: Great problem solving book that teaches kids to roll with the punches and embrace any snags in their plans. Have a class wide discussion about times you and your students have faced a problem when doing a project or activity, and how you solved it. Then participate in a class building activity, such as building the highest tower out of paper towel rolls, or the strongest paper bridge. You are bound to run into some road blocks, but this is a time to stop and teach the students to find a new solution.This is an important lesson these students will need to know for the rest of their lives, and it's a great lesson to learn early on.
Citation: Ingalls, A., & Watson, R. (2013). Ice Cream Soup. New York: Penguin Group.
Activity: Great problem solving book that teaches kids to roll with the punches and embrace any snags in their plans. Have a class wide discussion about times you and your students have faced a problem when doing a project or activity, and how you solved it. Then participate in a class building activity, such as building the highest tower out of paper towel rolls, or the strongest paper bridge. You are bound to run into some road blocks, but this is a time to stop and teach the students to find a new solution.This is an important lesson these students will need to know for the rest of their lives, and it's a great lesson to learn early on.
Citation: Ingalls, A., & Watson, R. (2013). Ice Cream Soup. New York: Penguin Group.
July 11, 2016
Synopsis: "What happens when you try to make an ice cream cake, but add too much stuff? You end up with ice cream soup! This original Level 1 reader with rhyming text is perfect for beginning readers."
My Rating: This is a fun and silly book for those beginning readers. It is a great level one book with large print, simple words and sentences and a story to keep attention. Many of the words are sight words that early readers will be able to pick up on. The story is also so silly, about making an ice cream cake that kids will ask to read it again and again.
My Rating: This is a fun and silly book for those beginning readers. It is a great level one book with large print, simple words and sentences and a story to keep attention. Many of the words are sight words that early readers will be able to pick up on. The story is also so silly, about making an ice cream cake that kids will ask to read it again and again.
August 29, 2013
While the illustrations are magical, I think it would send the wrong message to children that its alright to use tons and tons of sugar and candy, with no consequences. It wasn't until I was 17 that I learned that having a bowl of ice cream doesn't mean that you have to jam pack as much as possible into the container. I think this book has the potential to hinder, not improve. To entertain, but not to teach.
August 2, 2016
This was part of my ice cream storytime. The kids did a great job of chiming in with the "pat and pat" portion and also enjoyed calling out which ingredient he would add next. But the end just wasn't quite right and didn't sound resolved enough. Even my kids noticed, since they all just sorta sat there waiting for more. *shrugs* Still, I'd use it again, since there isn't a whole lot out there about ice cream.
October 1, 2014
Ice Cream Soup is our third favorite Penguin Young Readers, Level 1 book.
It's a bit harder than the others, so our 5-year-old granddaughter couldn't always read it alone, but she liked the story better than some of the others.
(Penguin Young Readers, Level 1D.)
It's a bit harder than the others, so our 5-year-old granddaughter couldn't always read it alone, but she liked the story better than some of the others.
(Penguin Young Readers, Level 1D.)
August 8, 2014
The best bonk in.the whole wide world!
October 21, 2014
Aaliyah really enjoyed this book. The first thing she said was, "That's not soup, that's ice cream." LOL! This child is NOT easily misled/tricked! LOL!
January 31, 2016
I loved this book!❤️ Because I love to cook!
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