The Ice Cream Vanishes

by Julia Sarcone-Roach (Author)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

The almost Amazing Squirrel and their lovely assistant, Bear, are here to make snacks (and ice cream) disappear!

A deliciously funny picture book from the award-winning creator of The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. Squirrel is an expert at making acorns disappear. But making some ice cream vanish?! "I put it right there! On that hot rock in the sun!" When Squirrel returns with Bear and finds the ice cream gone, they know there is only one explanation Squirrel is a magician! Determined to replicate this feat, Squirrel and Bear follow the ice cream truck...and put on a show every forest animal will remember forever.

With a text that begs to be read aloud and lush paintings filled with humor, Julia Sarcone Roach creates magical mayhem and a story so delicious, kids will be begging for second helpings.

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Kirkus

I scream. You scream. We all scream for vanishing ice cream.

Publishers Weekly

When snack-obsessed Squirrel, convinced it has a magical ability to make tasty treats disappear, finds a dropped ice cream cone, it enlists as its assistant Bear, who takes long enough to awaken that the frozen treat vanishes from (i.e., melts on) a sun-warmed rock. But the two soon stumble on the perfect stage for further prestidigitation: an ice cream truck momentarily abandoned by its human owner. Squirrel hits on just the magic words--"Bear, you've got to try this!"--and before a forest animal audience, Bear makes a pink ice cream cone "vanish" in one slurp. Inspired, the animals don waffle and sugar cones as hats and swarm the truck to make some magic of their own: a bunny gets covered in soft serve, and a turtle rolls an ice cream sandwich out the door. Fans of the Norma and Belly series and other bear-studded books from Sarcone-Roach (There Are No Bears in This Bakery) are sure to lap up this work--heavily stroked acrylic, gouache, and pen and pencil illustrations have all the appeal of a rainbow cone generously sprinkled with visual jokes. Ages 3-7. Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary. (June)

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ALA/Booklist

Sarcone-Roach has delivered another story centering an endearing unreliable narrator. . .[with] enough silly effervescence to make this tale a lively summer storytime pick.

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Julia Sarcone-Roach
Julia Sarcone-Roach won a 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Award for her breakout hit, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. She also wrote and illustrated There Are No Bears in This Bakery and Subway Story and illustrated Excellent Ed by Stacy McAnulty.

Julia grew up in Arlington, Virginia, studied film and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she paints pictures, tames squirrels, and keeps her eyes peeled for bears.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593309858
Lexile Measure
540
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Publication date
June 20, 2023
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002030 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Bears
Library of Congress categories
Bears
Friendship
Picture books
Squirrels
Ice cream, ices, etc

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