We All Scream for Ice Cream!

by Lee Wardlaw, Sandra Forrest (Illustrator)

We eat it in cups or cones. We drink it in sodas or shakes. We like it slathered in hot fudge sauce, wallowing in whipped cream, or balancing atop a slice of pie. We love it all year round. Ice cream was once so rare and expensive that it was considered the dessert of kings. So, how did this treat for the elite become America's favorite sweet?

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2000

About the author

Lee Wardlaw swears that her first spoken word was 'kitty'. Since then, she's shared her life with 31 cats (not all at the same time!) and published 31 award-winning books for young readers, selling more than one million copies world wide. Her newest title is My Book of Firsts: Poems Celebrating a Baby's Milestones, illus. by Bruno Brogna and published by Red Comet Press/Abrams.

Lee's other books include Won Ton - A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Children's Poetry Award and the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award (among others); Won Ton and Chopstick, an NCTE Notable Poetry Book; and 101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies, recipient of the Forward National Literature Award for Humor.

Lee has a B.A. in Education, an AMI-Primary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego, and is finishing her M.Ed.

A former teacher, Lee continues to keep up-to-date with children, tweens, and teens by presenting frequently at schools, libraries, bookstores, and conferences. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with two dog-disdaining cats.

Reviews

[korrinamoe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book. It is full of all kinds of cool facts about ice cream. I need to read it again sometime.

[Angela Jimenez · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's been years since I read this, but it was completely fascinating and informative - about the history of ice-cream!