Ice Cream!: A Short and Sweet History

Geisel Award–winning Greg Pizzoli gives us the scoop on the history of ice cream.

Vanilla! Chocolate! Pumpkin?

Do YOU like ICE CREAM? Because right now, somewhere in the world, someone is eating it.

Did you know that the largest ice cream cone had 121 scoops? Or that some of the earliest iced desserts were flavored with pumpkin? No matter where you look, there's always an ice cream lover—but where did it come from? And how was it invented?

In this sugary-sweet follow-up to his bestselling Pizza!: A Slice of History, four-time Geisel Award honoree Greg Pizzoli gives us the scoop on how ice cream became the world's favorite dessert.