Random Acts of Chocolate!

When watching TSN’s Off the Record last week, I caught Michael ‘Pinball’ Clemons promoting a new campaign by Mars chocolate ‘Random Acts of Chocolate’. He says he is thrilled to be a part of a campaign that brings happiness to Canadians, “What a great feeling” says Clemons.

Any act of kindness, big or small, can bring joy to someone's day. To help get you started, Mars Canada Inc. is giving away 100,000 coupons to be redeemed for free chocolate products & inviting you to start spreading a little kindness. Twenty thousand coupons will be released on April 1, 2010 and then on every Saturday between April 3, 2010 and April 24, 2010. Each coupon is valid for one FREE Chocolate Single. Sure you could use the coupon to get a Mars bar for yourself, but isn't there someone in your life that could use a bag of M&M’s Chocolate candies? After all, a small gesture can create big smiles. Give a Chocolate Single to someone who deserves it, and put a smile on their face.

A random act of kindness is such a beautiful selfless act by a person wishing to cheer up an individual. There is generally no reason other than to make people smile! Is there anything better than a spontaneous random act of kindness to enlighten someone’s moment?

http://www.marsacts.ca

Raise the bar on kindness!
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I Love Chocolate

Simple statement, and a simple title of a delightful book from Tundra Books. I Love Chocolate is a children’s book written by Davide Cali and illustrated by Evelyn Daviddi.
The story is about a boy’s love of chocolate and he tells us just how much. He enjoys eating chocolate whether he’s happy or sad, bored or scared, any day of the week. Sound familiar? He questions the reader asking what type of chocolate eater you are - nibbler or monster muncher?

All around it’s a fun, humorous book full of excuses why you should eat chocolate. I sympathize with him when he realizes the hardest part about loving chocolate is eating too much. I know the feeling. I found myself following along his chocolate journey relating to his observations and love of chocolate. When you are reading this book with your child (or, like me, to your classroom of grade 3 students) you must have chocolate nearby.
It would have been fun to include a scratch and sniff chocolate patch in one or two places to spark that sense of smell. What child wouldn’t want to read a book about chocolate SMELLING like chocolate? The book is beautifully illustrated. The boy is brought to life on the pages and you immediately take a liking to him. The colours throughout only enhance the chocolate and there’s so much to discover on every page.

The marketer in me thinks it’s a book that would do well in a chocolate shop as an accompaniment to a chocolate purchase or gift basket. Every time the book was read with their little one, they would be reminded that they must stop off at your chocolate shop again :)

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