Most people love chocolate, but few know that its main ingredient, the cocoa bean, comes from a tree that grows in tropical rain forests. Dual-layer text describes the life cycle of the tree, emphasizing its botanical structures and highlighting the interdependence of the plant and animals such as the pollen-sucking midge, brain-eating coffin fly, and aphid-munching anole lizard. Two wise-cracking bookworms offer metatextual commentary and humor in this fascinating depiction of the trees and animals that fuel our chocolate cravings.
| ISBN: | 9781580892889 |
| Publication date: | 21st June 2018 |
| Author: | Melissa Stewart, Allen M. Young |
| Illustrator: | Nicole Wong |
| Publisher: | Charlesbridge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 32 pages |