Picture Book Wednesday: Ice Cream Man

 

Today at the library, it's one of our Family Fun Nights for Summer Reading. Tonight, the owner of my favorite local ice cream shop will be talking about small businesses, ice cream, and being a part of the community. And then, of course, we get to eat ice cream! 

A picture book biography of Augustus Jackson and how his inventions help make ice cream today. From the streets of Philadelphia to the White House and back, he made ice cream for three presidents. But he wanted to make ice cream for everyone. He invented new ways to make ice cream faster, He created new flavors. He created ways to ship ice cream so other stores could sell his ice cream.

This is a fascinating book about the sweet dessert. The illustrations are charming. And there is an ice cream recipe included. 

Library Program: Black Inventors

 This year at the library, we wanted to do something more than the usual displays for Black History Month. So, we decided to have a Take & Make Craft Bag each week featuring a craft of a Black invention. We included a mini biography of the inventor and how they created or improved the invention.

Here's a sample of our social media posting:

And the four crafts:

Traffic Light:

Elevator Doors: 

This one we created ourselves.

Potato Chips:

Roller Coaster (invention the 3rd rail)

It was just a different way for us to highlight Black History Month.

And I should have kept it up and did the same for Women's History Month and AAPI month....