A step-by-step exploration of how ice cream is made, beginning with the healthy foods cows eat to produce good milk, and ending with a carton of frozen treat.
Traces the history of ice cream, and follows the process by which ice cream is made in the twenty-first century, from farm to factory, to grocery store.
Lionel has always wanted just two things--to be king and to have all the ice cream he can eat--but after completing King School he learns that monarch jobs are very hard to get, and he is feeling quite disappointed until an interesting offer comes along.
Hearing about the invention of the ice cream cone at the 1904 World's Fair, an ice cream peddler hopes to be the first to introduce the idea in New York City.
At the picnic on the last day of school, James, his friends, and the cafeteria lady make a variety of ice cream sundaes, using mathematics to figure out how many different kinds they can create.