Smart About Chocolate

Smart About History

Illustrated by Charise Mericle Harper
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$7.99 US
On sale Dec 29, 2004 | 32 Pages | 9780448434803

Our unique, kid-friendly Smart About series continues with something for your sweet tooth! Smart About Chocolate is "chock-full" of fun facts about the history of chocolate, from the Mayans to Milton Hershey! Kids will learn how chocolate comes from beans of the rain forest's cacao trees and how candymakers in England and Switzerland first produced the chocolate we know and love today. Includes recipes and recommendations of classic books about chocolate.
Charise Mericle Harper has written and illustrated numerous children's books, including Pink Me Up!, Cupcake, When Randolph Turned Rotten, and the Bean Dog and Nugget series. She lives in Mamaroneck, New York, with her husband and their two children. Charise loves creating art and stories, petting her cat, drinking coffee, and eating pie. View titles by Charise Mericle Harper

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Our unique, kid-friendly Smart About series continues with something for your sweet tooth! Smart About Chocolate is "chock-full" of fun facts about the history of chocolate, from the Mayans to Milton Hershey! Kids will learn how chocolate comes from beans of the rain forest's cacao trees and how candymakers in England and Switzerland first produced the chocolate we know and love today. Includes recipes and recommendations of classic books about chocolate.

Author

Charise Mericle Harper has written and illustrated numerous children's books, including Pink Me Up!, Cupcake, When Randolph Turned Rotten, and the Bean Dog and Nugget series. She lives in Mamaroneck, New York, with her husband and their two children. Charise loves creating art and stories, petting her cat, drinking coffee, and eating pie. View titles by Charise Mericle Harper

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