Chocolate Fever (Mass Market Paperback)

by Robert Kimmel Smith (Author), Gioia Fiammenghi (Illustrator) "THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE who say that Henry Green wasn't really born, but was hatched, fully grown, from a chocolate bean..." (more)
Key Phrases: big brown spots, chocolate fever, little brown spots, Henry Green, Nurse Farthing, Alfred Cane (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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It’s all quite preposterous and lots of laughs. -- Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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


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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Yearling (May 9, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375806768
• ISBN-13: 978-0375806766
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,897,944 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun book for kids!, April 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chocolate Fever (Paperback)

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!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, May 2, 2000

By	retrowens (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Chocolate Fever (Paperback)

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

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars you are what you eat!, March 30, 2001

By	Chess Heart "paxbear" (Cattauraugus County, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chocolate Fever (Paperback)

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!