The book is full of simple, mouth-watering descriptions of creamy milk and ripe cherries. All readers – parents, teachers, and students – will appreciate a story with sweet lessons packaged with some salt and prickly tang.īy putting chocolate as the focus, Patrick Skene Catling also manages to make both his protagonist and his readers appreciate the things on the plate that aren’t chocolate. It’s a sweetly and briskly told fable, reminiscent of the old favorite Bread and Jam for Frances. The only cure for John’s chocolatitis is for him to think of others before himself, a valuable lesson for us all. Instead, it is about the peril of being selfish and self-centered. But chocolate’s chocolate!” But The Chocolate Touch isn’t really just about chocolate. As John Midas says, “Other things are just food. Why should you read that? Of course, it is engaging for children to read a book that is all about chocolate – at least on the surface. The Chocolate Touch is a charming little re-telling of the King Midas story – only this time it’s young John Midas who can turn everything into…chocolate!
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