The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams: Book 1

By Author / Illustrator

Shane Hegarty, Jeff Crowther

Genre

Funny Stories

Age range(s)

Publisher

Hachette Children's Group

ISBN

9781444962499

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

09-06-2022

Synopsis

Welcome to the Shop of Impossible Ice Creams! Step inside to discover a delicious world of magical adventure, from bestselling author Shane Hegarty. First in a comic, heart-warming illustrated series, for 7+ fans of The Nothing to See Here Hotel and Charlie Changes into a Chicken.

Limpet's mum is opening an ice-cream shop, full of her favourite new flavours: mushroom and tuna ice cream, anyone? Roast parsnip and gravy? Limpet's not sure about this. He likes a nice, safe life. His favourite ice-cream flavour is vanilla. But when wicked Mr Fluffy arrives with his Mega Emporium of Amazing and Spectacular Ice Creams, Limpet knows he's got to fight back. And there are magic ingredients on his doorstep which can solve all his worries, if only he can get the recipe just right ...

Illustrated throughout with fabulous black and white illustrations by Jeff Crowther and written by the bestselling author of Boot, this story will make you fall in love with reading.

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Reviews

The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams is fantastic! I could leave the review there actually as it really is that good but I feel I should explain why. It is laugh out loud funny and I mean that, I did laugh out loud in public several times to the point that I had to share what I was reading with some interested onlookers. It's so much more than that though, there's real heart in here too.

Limpet, his mum and his younger sister move and he has to start a new school. Alongside this his mother wants to open an ice cream shop selling weird flavours, such as mushroom and tuna, this on its own would be bad enough but Mr Fluffy, who owns the other ice cream shop, vows to destroy them. Limpet vows to fight back and save his mum and their shop.

Not easy when you're only a child and full of your own worries. Limpet is a really lovely character; I felt very protective of him but I also really, genuinely liked him. I'm sad to have to say goodbye to him on the last page but very glad to have met him. This will be a really popular LKS2 book!

224 Pages / Reviewed by Nicola, teacher