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| Yes this does look like a chocolate bar! Yum yum ^o^ |
March 2016, Chicken House, 240 pages, Review copy
Content: warning - lots of chocolate mentions! & humour
Summary from Chicken House
Jelly and her family live in Chompton-on-de-Lyte, where everyone loves a Blocka Choca bar or two.
So when the end of chocolate is announced, she can’t believe it.
Determined to investigate, Jelly and her gran follow a trail of clues to
a posh chocolate shop and its owner, the pompous Garibaldi Chocolati.
Gari’s suspiciously smug, despite his failing business and yucky
chocolate. Is it really the chocopocalypse, or is there a chocoplot
afoot?
Nayu's thoughts
A fantastically
realistic look at what could happen in a chocolate shortage. I love
how Jelly is in a family with 1 parent who has lost their job, as
these days that is the reality for a lot of people. It was cool having
her grandmother live so close, and convenient for the after hours
expediion Jelly ends up on. There is a lot of humour, some subtle
which younger readers may not get but which made me smile a lot. I
advise having some chocolate to hand when reading this as it made me
want some!!! A girl can only resist for so long, alrhough I'm not as
desperate as Jelly's mum was in that kitchen incident.
Jelly faces so
many concerns that I whooped when she stumbled upon mindfulness. What ifs can be a plague, and when she
learns to enjoy the present I mentally clapped with joy. And yet it is
because she worries so much and thinks ahead that she worked out the
clues to the global chocolate shortage.
Let's just say I was glad there wasn't an
illustration of one of Garibaldi's treasured possessons.
I love the
drama with Jelly's next-door neighbour, Jelly's family dynamics, and how Jelly works hard on
keeping her dad out of trouble. Her hard work and determination pays
off in the end where there is a little twist that has me hoping for
more Jelly adventures.
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