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Stewart, Melissa , Young, Allen

No Monkeys, No Chocolate

32 pp. | Charlesbridge | August, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58089-287-2 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Nicole Wong. Stewart and Young explain where chocolate comes from: working backward from cocoa beans (dried and processed by humans) to cocoa pods (which come from cocoa flowers pollinated by midges) to monkeys dropping cocoa seeds on the rainforest floor. Full-bleed ink and watercolor illustrations zoom in on each step along the way; in a corner of each spread, two little worms provide humorous running commentary.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2014