July Is National Ice Cream Month 2023

Ice cream has been a favorite food in the United States since the 1700s. In the 1800s, an ice cream maker was invented – it allowed people to hand-crank the ice cream inside a bucket of ice, mixing the ingredients until they slowly froze. 

Today, there are electric ice cream makers, and huge ice cream factories make almost a billion gallons of ice cream in the U.S. every year! However, (according to our friend Google) you can actually make ice cream without an ice cream maker (electric or otherwise), if you have a few simple ingredients plus ice, salt, and two plastic bags.

Here are some great books about making and enjoying ice cream in celebration of National Ice Cream Month 2023. Yum!

Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda Armand

For the Love of Popsicles: Naturally Delicious Icy Sweet Summer Treats from A-Z by Sarah Bond

Ice Cream Vanishes by Julia Sarcone-Roach

Cooler Than Lemonade: A Story about Great Ideas and How They Happen by Harshita Jerath

Paletero Man by Lucky Diaz

Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliott

Good Housekeeping 1,2,3 Cook!: My First Cookbook by Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping

Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Revolution by Lisa Robinson

Do Lizards Eat Ice Cream?: How Animals Beat the Heat by Etta Kaner

Enter the Underground Throwdown (Blue, Barry & Pancakes #4) by Jason Jason

Every Second: 100 Lightning Strikes, 8,000 Scoops of Ice Cream, 200,000 Text Messages, 1 Million Gals. of Cow Burps... by Bruno Gibert

Scream for Ice Cream (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #2) by Carolyn Keene

Yetis Are the Worst! (Worst! #3) by Alex Willan

Ice Cream Soup (Step Into Reading) by Ann Ingalls

Ice Cream Machine by Adam Rubin