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It’s HOT today. Languishing, non-humid yet still horrible heat. A great time to eat and read about ice cream. Larry is a polar bear whose job is to lifeguard at the Hotel Larry. He saved the hotelier’s life and thus the hotel was renamed after him. In this particular tale, Larry asks to take a nap in the walk-in freezer of an ice cream shop. (Sounds appealing, doesn’t it?) While in there, he eats an 1/8^th of a ton of ice cream and does not get sick. Through a series of somewhat unlikely events, this feat leads to a line of ice cream bars being named after him as well.

This is a cute book, one of a series of books by Pinkwater which are illustrated by his wife, Jill. Rated in ice cream cones for this unbearable heat, I give Larry’s ice cream tale an 8.

Pinkwater, Daniel. Ice Cream Larry. Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish, 1999.

ISBN-13: 9780761450436