Meet the kidpreneurs.
Curtis has the big idea. Starr is all in. Together they open the Ice Pop Shop — and learn that flavours are the easy part.
The story
It's melting hot the day Starr meets the new kid, Curtis. They both want bikes, and together they hatch a terrific idea: become kidpreneurs and open an Ice Pop Shop to earn the money. Easy!
Except running a business turns out to be TRICKY. They have to work out their ideas, listen to a mentor, learn how to budget, and survive disasters. As the weather gets hotter, can they deliver the ice pops they promised their community — or will the friendship and the whole enterprise melt?
Inspired by author Janna Dutton's own business experience, Ice Pop Shop is a funny, rapid-read chapter book — at home as a family read-aloud or a classroom novel study with free lesson plans to match.
Book facts
- Reading level
- Grades 2–4
- Format
- Illustrated chapter book, 8 chapters
- Author
- Janna Dutton
- Illustrator
- Kevin Quinlan (watercolour)
- ISBN (paperback)
- 978-1-7386725-0-9
- ISBN (e-book)
- 978-1-7386725-1-6
- Publisher
- You Know the Way Inc.®
- Themes
- Entrepreneurship · teamwork · budgeting · goal-setting · resilience · conflict resolution
Get the book
Ice Pop Shop ships anywhere in Canada — shipping is:
- $6.99 for one copy
- $10 for 2–5 copies
- $20 for 6–29 copies
- FREE for class sets
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Single copy
One paperback, signed on request — and a second book given to a Canadian kid through Buy One, Give One.
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A copy for every desk, plus free curriculum-aligned lesson plans. The novel study that plans itself.
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A peek inside
Kevin Quinlan's watercolour illustrations run through every chapter.
