Ice Cream Summer

Written and illustrated by Peter Sís

Hardcover

$17.99

$16.97

4 - 8

Reading age

Page count

534

Word count

AD370L

Lexile measure

May 26, 2015

Publication date

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What's Ice Cream Summer About

Publisher Summary

A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer–but all his activities revolve around ice cream.

What Kind of Book is Ice Cream Summer

Reviews

B is for Bookworm

5.25

Lemony Snickers

3.00

Ice Cream Summer is a cute book, and it's definitely all about ice cream. Every page is filled with quirky, clever ideas about ice cream, from ice cream inventions and ice-cream inspired cartography to ice cream math and ice cream wordsmithing as the main character writes his grandmother all about his ice cream-filled filled summer.

Book Lists That Include Ice Cream Summer

Books about word play

Books about puns and punning

Books about summer

The Creative Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Peter Sís

Peter Sís is a Hans Christian Anderson Award winner, a three-time Caldecott Honoree, a Sibert Award winner, and a MacArthur Fellow. He is the illustrator of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s The Dreamer, a Pura Belpré Award winner, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and an ALA Notable. Sís’s many celebrated picture books, including Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet Through the Red Box, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, are treasured by readers all over the world. His most recent picture book, Ice Cream Summer, was hailed by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review as “an encomium to summer, to the power of learning, and to that beloved, creamy-cold treat.” When Peter isn’t traveling the globe eating ice cream, he creates picture books and fine art that can be seen in galleries, museums, and public spaces from New York to Los Angeles, London to Prague, and lots of cities in between. Visit Peter online and learn more about his award-winning books at www.petersis.com.