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Chocolate Fever

Author Robert Kimmel Smith
Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi
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Penguin Young Readers | Puffin Books
On sale Apr 20, 2006 | 96 Pages | 9781101076132
Grades 3-7
Reading Level: Lexile 680L
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Henry Green eats so much chocolate he comes down with chocolate fever.
© George Hausman
Robert Kimmel Smith is a writer, mostly known for his award-winning books for children. The War with Grandpa has received eleven State Reading Awards, including the William Allen White Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. His other works include Chocolate Fever, Jelly Belly, Mostly Michael, and The Squeaky Wheel. Smith is the recipient of the New York Library Association Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for his body of work. In addition to writing award-winning books for children, he has written short stories and plays, as well as the script for the television production of Chocolate Fever for CBS Story Break. View titles by Robert Kimmel Smith
Gioia Fiammenghi View titles by Gioia Fiammenghi
An Excerpt from Chocolate Fever

      

      Can you imagine a boy having a chocolate-bar sandwich as an after-school
      snack? Well, Henry did, just about every day. And when he ate mashed potatoes,
      just a few drops of chocolate syrup swished through seemed to make them
      taste a lot better. Chocolate sprinkles sprinkled on top of plain buttered
      noodles were tasty, too. Not to mention a light dusting of cocoa on things
      like canned peaches, pears, and applesauce.

      In the Greens' kitchen pantry there was always a giant supply of chocolate
      cookies, chocolate cakes, chocolate pies, and chocolate candies of every
      kind. There was ice cream, too. Chocolate, of course, and chocolate nut,
      chocolate fudge, chocolate marshmallow, chocolate swirl, and especially
      chocolate almond crunch. And all of it was just for Henry.

      If there was one thing you could say about Henry it was that he surely did
      love chocolate. "Probably more than any boy in the history of the world,"
      his mother said.

      "How does Henry like his chocolate?" Daddy Green would sometimes joke.

      "Why, he likes it bitter, sweet, light, dark, and daily."
      And it was true. Up until the day we're talking about right now.

      
Copyright © 2000 by Robert Kimmel Smith; illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
"It's all quite preposterous and lots of laughs, and so are the cartoon illustrations."--Publishers Weekly.

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Henry Green eats so much chocolate he comes down with chocolate fever.

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© George Hausman
Robert Kimmel Smith is a writer, mostly known for his award-winning books for children. The War with Grandpa has received eleven State Reading Awards, including the William Allen White Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. His other works include Chocolate Fever, Jelly Belly, Mostly Michael, and The Squeaky Wheel. Smith is the recipient of the New York Library Association Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for his body of work. In addition to writing award-winning books for children, he has written short stories and plays, as well as the script for the television production of Chocolate Fever for CBS Story Break. View titles by Robert Kimmel Smith
Gioia Fiammenghi View titles by Gioia Fiammenghi

Excerpt

An Excerpt from Chocolate Fever

      

      Can you imagine a boy having a chocolate-bar sandwich as an after-school
      snack? Well, Henry did, just about every day. And when he ate mashed potatoes,
      just a few drops of chocolate syrup swished through seemed to make them
      taste a lot better. Chocolate sprinkles sprinkled on top of plain buttered
      noodles were tasty, too. Not to mention a light dusting of cocoa on things
      like canned peaches, pears, and applesauce.

      In the Greens' kitchen pantry there was always a giant supply of chocolate
      cookies, chocolate cakes, chocolate pies, and chocolate candies of every
      kind. There was ice cream, too. Chocolate, of course, and chocolate nut,
      chocolate fudge, chocolate marshmallow, chocolate swirl, and especially
      chocolate almond crunch. And all of it was just for Henry.

      If there was one thing you could say about Henry it was that he surely did
      love chocolate. "Probably more than any boy in the history of the world,"
      his mother said.

      "How does Henry like his chocolate?" Daddy Green would sometimes joke.

      "Why, he likes it bitter, sweet, light, dark, and daily."
      And it was true. Up until the day we're talking about right now.

      
Copyright © 2000 by Robert Kimmel Smith; illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Praise

"It's all quite preposterous and lots of laughs, and so are the cartoon illustrations."--Publishers Weekly.

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