Ice Cream Face, Heidi Woodward Sheffield
Ice Cream Face, Heidi Woodward Sheffield
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Ice Cream Face

Author: Heidi Woodward Sheffield

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Unabridged: 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2022

Synopsis

The Ezra Jack Keats Award–winning creator of Brick by Brick brings to delicious life the anxiety and elation involved in waiting in line to get ice cream.

As far as this ice-cream-loving kid is concerned, every meal should include ice cream. In any form, in every flavor, he loves it all. But what he doesn't love is seeing other people with ice cream .  .  .  while he's still waiting in line for his. That's when he can get his mad, "no-ice-cream-yet, waiting-in-a-long-line face"--until he finally gets his cone, and his mad face melts into something sweet. Heidi Woodward Sheffield gently explores a range of emotions as they relate to this delicious, everyday experience.

About The Author

Heidi Woodward Sheffield received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for Brick by Brick, her first picture book, and has received numerous awards from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators for her illustrations. On any given day, she can be seen taking photographs of textures that inspire her stories and collages. She lives in Northville, Michigan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by LeeTravelGoddess on June 22, 2022

Cute lol......more

Goodreads review by Erin on August 04, 2022

ICE CREAM FACE recounts a story we all know well - the highs and lows of ice cream. We all know that kids feel all of their feelings to the fullest. The main character in this book experiences the boredom of waiting, the joy of getting ice cream, the pain of brain freeze and more. The words rhyme an......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 28, 2022

My new favorite for storytime! The illustrations are adorable and detailed. I love the collage overlaid with photos-the finished product looks three dimensional and I was wanting ice cream the entire time I read. The brain freeze spread is my favorite! This is a great book for talking about emotions......more

Goodreads review by Daniella on June 26, 2023

Ice Cream Face is another contribution from the Imagination Library, cementing the fact that they have superior taste when it comes to picking out books for kids. My daughter was immediately enamored of this, and I'm pretty sure I've been forced to read it at least 50 times a day since we received i......more

Goodreads review by Nanny Miss Monique on July 30, 2022

Not many things in this world match the excitement of a kid getting ice cream. For one little boy, there is nothing he loves more than the cold, creamy, colorful stuff. Waiting in line at the store for his tasty Summer treat is the worst kind of waiting, but worth every drop. Even a brain freeze won......more

Quotes

"Ice cream elicits an impressive repertoire of expressions from this book’s narrator, a self-named 'ice cream kid.' . . . Sheffield employs photographs—most evocatively of the coveted ice cream scoops—digital painting, and subtly mottled collage in this amiable meditation on the joys of a rich emotional life starring a funny, self-aware protagonist who wears their ice-cream-loving heart on their sleeve."--Publishers Weekly

“Now here’s a young man who knows his ice cream. . . . The narrator for this tasty outing is an appealing Everykid with a mischievous, anticipatory smile stretched across his expressive brown face, and his keen observations of the many ways to enjoy a cone (from dribblers to ice cream-bearded babies) ring true. Sheffield’s collage artwork is especially evocative in its consistent contrast between grainy cut paper figures and backdrops mixed with photographs of the ice cream itself—smooth, glossy, and technicolor-bright.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

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