Sidewalk Trip - Growing Tree Author:Patricia Hubbell, Mari Takabayashi (Illustrator) I'm splashing through a puddle with a splish, splish, splish. — Ice cream! Ice cream! Ice cream! — Is my wish, wish, wish. — What better reason to take a walk through the neighborhood than to meet the ice cream truck. Patricia Hubbell's bouncy verse wonderfully mimics the hopping, skipping, giddy energy of a child on her way to an icy cone.... more » Mari Takabayashi captures every delicious detail along the way--from pigeons pecking at popcorn to the last bite of ice cream.« less