cacao beans

Follow the Hershey characters on an amazing adventure around the globe to discover the most important ingredients used to make a Hershey's chocolate bar.

After reading this book, the word "chocolate" may bring to mind not only candy and ice cream, but also lizards, fungi, and monkeys--all part of the cocoa trees' ecosystem. Includes further information on cocoa and rainforests and suggestions to help save rainforests.

Describes where chocolate comes from and how it is made.

Presents an introduction to the process of making chocolate, from the time the farmer plants a cocoa tree to the time someone eats a piece of candy.

Simple text and color photographs show how chocolate is made.

An introduction to the process of making chocolate, from the time the farmer plants a cocoa tree to the time someone eats a piece of candy.

Describes how the cocoa bean is used to make chocolate and how the animals and other living things in the tropical rain forest play important parts in its creation.

Describes where chocolate comes from and how it is made.

Presents facts about the cocoa bean, including how it is grown, harvested, and marketed, and finally turned into a variety of chocolate products.

Relates the Aztec tale of how chocolate was introduced to humans after the Wind God, upset over the Sun God's refusal to share his dark cacao, transforms into a blue frog and tells the children where to find cacao beans.