Monday, April 21, 2025

Chocolatina

Chocolatina by Erik Kraft (Author), Denise Brunkus (Illustrator)

Tina loves chocolate so much that she goes by the name Chocolatina. Her health teacher stresses that "You Are What you Eat". Chocolatina wishes that it were true. Then she wakes up one day to find she has turned into chocolate. Things are not as great as she thought they would be. She is stiff. A kid tries to take taste.. Her feet melt a bit and get stuck to the ground.  Finally her heath teacher calls her over to a private meeting. She tries to take a bite out of her, but is interrupted by the principal. This leads to the teacher being fired. The next day, Tina turns back into a person and vows to stop eating chocolate - starting tomorrow. On the final page, there is a picture of the health teacher appearing as chocolate. The book has bizarre style of drawings that work for the Dahl-esque story.

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