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 :)

Savour & Enjoy