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Chocolate Fever

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4 star:		(25)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Henry Green eats nothing but chocolate, and this delightful story follows Henry on a wonderful adventure as he breaks out in a "chocolate fever"!

When spots start popping out all over his arms during class, his teacher whisks him off for a visit with the crazy Dr. Fargo. When Henry loses confidence in the wacky doc, he takes off and is chased through the streets by half the hospital staff! What happens next will surprise you.

My first-grader (who is in his school's Gifted and Talented program) got somewhat bogged down in this, his first "chapter book" so I think the rating of ages 4-8 is a bit off. The school librarian rates it at a third through fifth grade level and I'm inclined to agree. We read it as a family and my fifth grader LOVED it!

Do you love chocolate?? *I* love chocolate!! All my friends love chocolate!! As a teacher, I often have teeny chocolate bars as prizes for my students, and they would walk a mile on their hands and knees for some chocolate!! It'd be great to eat that stuff all day long, wouldn't it??

Or, would it??

In "Chocolate Fever" our hero, Henry Green, does just that. He ADORES chocolate. He practically WORSHIPS chocolate. He eats chocolate cereal with chocolate milk. He snacks on chocolate bars and pours chocolate syrup on his pancakes. The kid is BONZO over chocolate, folks!!

So, when you think about it, maybe it's NOT so strange that one day at school weird little brown bumps erupt all over his skin. They even make a popping sound as they appear! The teacher takes him to the doctor who analizes the bumps. Guess what? He's breaking out in PURE CHOCOLATE! Henry gets scared, the doctor gets inspired, thinking that he'll make medical history and be famous for discovering the first case of Chocolate Fever. Henry runs for his life.

He hitchhikes with a kind trucker, thinking he'll get far, far away from this whole mess until the truck is HIJACKED!! KIDNAPPED!! And meanwhile, the truck is hauling a load of-you guessed it-chocolate candy bars!!

I personally heard Chocolate Fever read to me back in elementary school, and it really stuck to my ribs. I've remembered it on and off through the years, and when I found it again in my school library, I read it to MY students. They were as enraptured with the book in 2001 as I was in 1978, which is perhaps one of the highest compliments a reader can pay to any book. Definitely a must read!

I remember reading Chocolate Fever long time ago and I thought it was pretty good. Henry eats too much chocolate and comes down with a never seen before disease and the doctors can't figure it out so they call it chocolate fever because Henry smells like chocolate all the time. But there's not any chocolate around. It then tells the classic tale of a boy being bullied around by bigger kids and when he gets bumps all over him that look like measles, they stay away from him. The book ends with Henry eating a lot of cinnamon and they wonder, "Is there a such thing as cinnamon fever?"

Chocolate Fever is not only a good book for kids to read, but really anyone if you like reading a good book every now and then. It has some hilarious lines to it and it'll keep you entertained throughout the story. END

Chocolate Fever is about a boy named Henry who loves chocolate . He has chocolate on about everything that he eats. One day at school he sees spots popping out all over his arm. He can't stand it anymore. Henry runs away from the doctors who tell him he has chocolate fever . Henry gets a ride from a kind truck driver named Mac. Henry is about to call his worried parents when he and Mac get hi-jacked! Read this book to find out what happens next. Will Henry ever be cured?

My favorite part of the story is when the doctors smell chocolate candy bars when chocolate is not allowed in the doctor's office.

I recommend that you read this wonderful book because it is funny and has a great ending.

I picked this book because I like chocolate and if you like chocolate and the book The Chocolate Touch then you'll love the book Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith and illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi. In this book a boy named Henry Green is in love with chocolate. His breakfast is all chocolate. And he gets chocolate dots from eating so much chocolate. I think the lesson of this story is not to eat so much candy.

If you want to know more about this book you should stop watching TV and go read it!

This book is pretty good, but not great. It is about a boy who eats too much chocolate and gets chocolate fever. We liked the book, because it was funny. It had funny words. We liked how the author described the "poppity-pop-pops." The illustrations were great. We especially laughed at Henry in his underwear. This book was also exciting. You could not put it down. The author had a strange plot. The boy, Henry, caught chocolate fever and there is no such thing. We recommend this book for 7 - 10 year old children.

Henry Green loves chocolate. His parents let him eat it for every meal and over everything. He thinks there is no such thing as too much chocolate.

One day, however, Henry leaves for school feeling like something strange is going to happen to him. Sure enough, he looks down in class to see spots are growing on him. The doctors can't figure out what this new disease is. Can they find a cure, or will Henry be stuck with little brown spots all over forever?

This is a fun, simple story that kids will love. The story moves forward quickly. Henry is a sympathetic character, and his predicament is certainly unusual and entertaining. Along the way, there are some good lessons. They might be a bit heavy handed, but the rest of the book is so much fun that few kids will really mind.

This is a modern classic that will be read for years to come. It's funny and entertaining while teaching some good lessons about judging others and enjoying things in moderation.

Chocolate fever? What's that? There are only two people in the world who can tell you. Chocolate fever is a sickness that you get when you eat way too much chocolate. So far no one else in the world knows about chocolate fever, but now some do. Henry Green loved chocolate, he liked his chocolate bitter, sweet, light, dark, and daily. One day, Henry leaves for school feeling like something strange is going to happen to him. Sure enough, he looks down in class to see little brown spots are growing on him. The doctors can't figure out what this new disease is. Once the doctors figure out the the brown spots are pure chocolate chaos starts. The doctors are poking Henry like he is a unicorn. Henry Green couldn't take it! So Henry ran, he ran all the way to the candy shop to meet with Mr. Cane. Henry told Mr. Cane about what was going on. Mr. Cane told Henry that he too had chocolate fever when he was a boy. He gave Henry Vanilla Pills and told him, "Take these and don't eat too much chocolate, then you will not have chocolate fever anymore." In and hour Henry did not have chocolate fever it was gone forever, or was it?

This was a required book for my son to read this summer. He and I enjoyed it tremondously.

I think Chocolate Fever deserves 4 stars because it was the funnies book I have ever read. Chocolate Fever is funny because Henry gets a diseases that gets him really embarassed and he gets himself in a lot of trouble. The reason I recumend this book to others because anyone can read it or give it to someone for a gift.