Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family -- Elizabeth Zunon, Hardcover

This beautifully illustrated story connects past and present as a girl bakes a chocolate cake with her father and learns about her grandfather harvesting cacao beans in West Africa.

Chocolate is the perfect treat, everywhere

As a little girl and her father bake her birthday cake together, Daddy tells the story of her Grandpa Cacao, a farmer from the Ivory Coast in West Africa. In a land where elephants roam and the air is hot and damp, Grandpa Cacao worked in his village to harvest cacao, the most important ingredient in chocolate. Chocolate is a gift to you from Grandpa Cacao, Daddy says. We can only enjoy chocolate treats thanks to farmers like him. Once the cake is baked, it's ready to eat, but this isn't her only birthday present. There's a special surprise waiting at the front door . . .

Author: Elizabeth Zunon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.20h x 10.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781681196404
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 505145 / Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate from Farm to Family


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
School Library Journal 04/01/2019 pg. 96
Booklist 04/01/2019 pg. 76
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2019 pg. 135
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2019
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author

Elizabeth Zunon was born in Albany, New York, and grew up in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. As a little girl, she loved to draw, paint, make up dances, and play dress-up in a household that was never devoid of chocolate. As she grew up, she didn't really change! Elizabeth now lives in Albany, where she explores a multicultural world through painting, silk-screening, collage, and pondering the endless possibilities of chocolate. Grandpa Cacao is her first authored-illustrated book, and a love letter to the grandfather she never knew.
www.lizzunon.com
@ElizabethZunon