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We are officially in the dog days of summer, and what better cover freebie theme to pick than ice cream trucks. They are a common sight here in North America in the summer. I don’t know if the same is true in other parts of the world, so please share if this is (or isn’t) something people look forward to in your country when the weather is hot and, depending on your local climate, possibly quite humid as well.
I have not read any of these titles yet, so let me know if they’re good.
1. Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer
2. Love, Inc. (Love, Inc., #1) by Yvonne Collins
3. Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian
4. The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
5. Wesley James Ruined My Life by Jennifer Honeybourn
6. We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
7. The Good Humor Man by Kathleen N. Daly
8. Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan
9. The Little Ice Cream Truck by Margery Cuyler
10. Garth Pig and the Icecream Lady by Mary Rayner
11. Curious George and the Ice Cream Surprise by Margret Rey
(Yes, I know this is eleven books instead of ten. Goodreads had eleven ideas for me, and I couldn’t bear to leave any of them out).
If it’s currently summer where you live, stay cool! May autumn arrive soon.
I love your take on this week’s prompt! Ice cream is probably my favorite dessert!
My TTT: https://www.literacious.com/2026/08/04/top-ten-tuesday-cover-freebie-ya-releases-for-fall-2026/
Thank you, and totally agreed there. 🙂
Great way to take the Freebie.
Thanks!
We have a neighborhood ice cream truck every two weeks in the summer, but they are common at fetes/fairs/markets etc.
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
That’s interesting!
I love this theme! There’s an ice cream truck that makes the rounds near me — and there’s an app to track it 🙂
I haven’t read any of these, and certainly never thought about how many books there are with ice cream trucks on the cover! I picked up a copy of The Unexpected Everything from the library years ago, but don’t think I ended upn reading it.
Thank you. I didn’t know there were apps out there that did that. How neat.
This summer has been so hot and I’ve been craving ice cream every day! These covers make me want some more!
Yay for ice cream during a hot summer!
Love it! they’re a big thing over here in the UK as well, although we call them ice-cream vans 😀
Oh, that’s cool. Honestly, vans makes more sense than trucks.
I would not have expected ice cream trucks to front so many books!
I know, right?
Fun topic. Now I want ice cream. Yum!
Yay!
This was such a fun topic choice! I think I like the look of Melt With You best!
Thank you. 🙂
I don’t buy from ice cream trucks often but I do get tempted…and now I want ice cream! I love the cover for The Unexpected Everything because of all the dogs 🥰 but I one for Melt With You is so pretty!
Heh, it sure is. Hope you get some ice cream.
Great choice! I love that you’ve found so many 🙂 I don’t think I can recall even one on my list but now I’m curious to see if my memory is right or not, lol.
I’m curious to hear that, too.
Great variety of books this week.
Thanks!
Kinda shocking how many books use ice cream trucks for the setting lol. I assumed it was just something the movies and cartoons like to show from time to time, but it makes sense for them to get mentioned in books too. Quite the summery choice for this week’s prompt!
Honestly, same here! And thanks.
How fun! And, I am sure difficult to come up with so many covers! I think if I only did kids books I could nail it, LOL!
Heh, for sure. 🙂
Well, THIS is a fun subject! 🙂 I have a couple of these but don’t think I ever read them (I know, no one is surprised) but I always wanted to read Morgan’s and I’m pretty sure I bought Stay Sweet solely for its cute and summer-y art. 🙂
I hope you enjoy them both.
A great idea for a list. We hear them going around the village. I haven’t had an ice cream from one this year yet though. They are quite expensive these days.
Have a great week!
Yes, they’ve gotten expensive in my area as well.
Fun Choice!! I live in CO and we used to have ice cream trucks that would drive up and down the streets but I haven’t seen those since I was a kid. Now the only time I see Ice Cream trucks is at events where they are parked with other food trucks.
That’s mostly where I see them, too.
Great topic! Here in Belgium we definitely also look forward to ice cream trucks in the summer months 😀
Yay!
In the ten years I’ve lived in my neighborhood, we’ve only had the ice cream truck come by twice. The only time I’ve ever actually gotten anything from one was at a fair or festival.
Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
Very interesting. It seems to vary a lot from one place to the next.
Nice take on this week’s topic! I really like the cover for The Unexpected Everything. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Thank you.
Aww this is such a fun book cover theme!
Thanks!
Fun list! I can’t resist ice-cream!
Same. 🙂
This one feels really niche and you did great finding so many examples!
Thank you.
I love this, who knew there were so many ice cream truck books? CJ Tudor’s new book Serenity Falls also has one.
Oh, nice! Thanks for the heads up.
What a fun summer topic. I immediately thought of The Unexpected Everything when I saw what your topic was 😀
Very cool.
What a FUN and COOL idea for this week’s prompt! 😋
Thanks!
I can’t believe you found so many books with ice cream trucks on the cover! Well done!
Thank you. 🙂
I don’t see classic ice cream trucks around much here in Arizona, but there are often ice cream food trucks at festivals and such. Even though it’s only 8:30 in the morning, ice cream is sounding REALLY good right now! LOL
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
That’s awesome. Hope you had a little ice cream.
Ha, that’s a fun choice of prompt!
An ice cream truck comes down into the street I live on pretty much every day, so tempting.
I would be super tempted by that as well.
Ha! What a fun topic!
Thanks.
Fabulous topic and perfect because it’s been so hot! My kids actually love that Curious George book! 🙂
Aww, that’s awesome!