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Alfie's Long Winter The Ice Cream King

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Alfie's Long Winter

Alfie's Long Winter, November 26, 2003

Reviewer:"jehsuekey" (Canada)

I just got back from the library and choose this book. I got it home and read it to my son, Wow what an amazing book. The pictures are fantastic and the story is easy to read and easy for children to relate to. Good Job, I'll be looking for more great books from Greg.

AMAZING, February 15, 2001
Reviewer: A reader
The first night I brought the book home I read it to my kids (ages 4 and 6) and they just loved it, they ask for me to read it to them all the time. The illustrations are wonderful and very detailed, when Alfie gets cold you almost shiver with him. My children loved the book and so will yours.

entertaining fall story for young children, January 28, 2000

Reviewer:Vanessa Simpson-Kravitz (Mohegan Lake, NY)

I teach ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE in an elementary school. I found the story of Alfie's Long Winter one that both entertained my young audience and educated them about what happens as the seasons change. The text was clear and easy to read. The pictures delightful. The pictures of faces on the leaves really made the story come to life for the children. The story line held their attention with its build up to a well rounded, happy ending. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The Ice Cream King

A parable for career education!, October 7, 2003

Reviewer:Ken Schneyer (Barrington, RI USA)

My children love this book. But my own fascination with it stems from its applicability to modern career education. I actually read it to my freshmen Technology students at the career education university where I teach, to raise issues of genuine career interest, researching the job market, and the claims of false educators.

Reviews

• #1 - from 'Today's Parent' magazine...

Here's a story for anyone who's ever wanted to combine work and play.

Lionel, the Ice Cream Man's best customer, has decided he'd like to be a King! It's a cushy job (he figures), plus, a King should be able to eat all the ice cream he wants.

So Lionel convinces his parents to enroll him in a King School, and upon graduation he scrolls the classified for 'Kings wanted' ads.

Frustrated, he heads off for the local palace - diploma in one hand, cone in the other - where he learns the awful truth: YOU CANT JUST
APPLY TO BE KING!!! You have to inherit the job.

As reality sinks in, the Ice Cream Man rolls up in his wagon and offers Lionel a chance to join his business and become 'The Ice Cream King'.

This is one of those rare books that parents and children will both find funny, though not necessarily the same parts. There are clever details that will likely be lost on younger children, but still, lots of 'kid friendly' humor in both the text and illustration.

(Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ages 5+)

• #2 - from 'Chatelaine' magazine...

Imagine a Fairy Tale with Castles, Kings, Princes, and a telephone operator saying; I'm sorry, that number is n longer in service...

The Ice Cream King by Greg McEvoy, is proof that if Robert 'The Boss' Munsch ever retires, McEvoy's ready to fill in.

(Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ages 4-8)

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