Diemer was working in Philadelphia for the Fleer Candy Company in 1928 when he accidentally stumbled upon the winning formula. He made it pink, he said, because that was the one food color he happened ...

Walter Diemer, an accountant with the Fleer chewing gum company, slowly begins experimenting with ingredients, trying to create bubblegum. One batch is a near miss—his co-workers happily blow bubbles, ...

You don’t have to wait until middle school to find good non-fiction. Meghan McCarthy takes a part of children’s lives that is so omnipresent – bubble gum — that it seems to have been around forever, ...