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Beans to Chocolate
Follows the process of manufacturing chocolate, from harvesting the cacao beans to making candy.
24 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2003
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March 15, 2022
A very simple read-along book about how chocolate is made. Emphasis on industrial processes. The picture of the machinery are not that great and doesn't really show a whole lot.
January 10, 2024
A book to teach young readers the basics about how chocolate goes from a bean to chocolate bar format. Quite basic but with pictures to make it easy to understand for young readers.
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November 27, 2015Title: Beans to Chocolate
Author: Inez Snyder
Illustrator:
Genre: How-To-Book
Theme(s): chocolate, processes, raw materials, machines
Opening line/sentence: Chocolate is made from cacao beans.
Brief Book Summary: This is a short detailed how-to-book explaining to young children how chocolate is made from cacao beans. The process starts from grinding down cacao beans to adding additional material to the grinded cacao beans to ultimately forming smooth yummy chocolate.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1: Marilyn Courtot (Children's Literature)
Who would have guessed that something as delicious as chocolate comes from cacao beans? Chocolate is made in factories because the beans are roasted, ground and turned into a paste that is mixed with powdered milk and sugar. The chocolate can then be processed into many delicious confections--some of which are shown on a page that might make your mouth water. The book concludes with a list of new words that includes pronunciation and definitions, a couple of books for more information, a web site reference, an index, and some information about the author and the series. How Thing are Made is part of the larger series of Welcome Books.
Professional Recommendation/Review #2: Kathy Haule (The Lorgnette - Heart of Texas Reviews (Vol. 16, No. 1))
This easy-to-read nonfiction is part of the Welcome Books: How Things Are Made series from Children's Press. The narrative traces the production of chocolate from cacao bean to candy. Every page has a clear, simple photograph of the step described in one or two sentences on the facing page. The binding appears durable and appropriate for small hands. A glossary of key words and a list of reference books appear in the back of the book. This would be good to use with upper elementary students reading below grade level as well.
Response to Two Professional Reviews: I completely agree with what both of these professional reviews above stated. This book is great for young children in the young elementary grades. The step by step processes helps students reading following the complete process of turning beans into chocolate. I also took notice to the glossary at the end of the book, which I loved it and really like about these sets of how-to books.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: This book is very simple and great for young readers. There are a few things that I took notice to in this book that I loved. One was the glossary of new words and definitions at the end of the book. This is a wonderful idea for young new learners and I thought this would be especially great for ELLs! Another element I liked from this how-to book was how the author bolded important words on each page in the steps of making chocolate. This sticks out to young readers and helps them notice and realize what is important when reading this book.
Consideration of Instructional Application: So I am from around Harrisburg, PA which is extremely close to Hershey, PA and this book instantly made me think of the chocolate world tour at Chocolate World in Hershey. If I had the chance to take my students to Chocolate World in Hershey on a field trip I would definitely share this book with my class. Each page of this text is clearly shown on the tour and I think this would be a great book to study before going on the tour with young learners. You then could make it educational and have them point out these steps on a worksheet while visiting Chocolate World. Another idea I had was bring in cacao beans to my class and having my students smell them and touch them and make predications to what they can do with cacao beans and then share this book with them. We could go over the idea that using the world’s natural resources to make our food is a wonderful idea and how these little cacao beans can make such yummy chocolate.
Author: Inez Snyder
Illustrator:
Genre: How-To-Book
Theme(s): chocolate, processes, raw materials, machines
Opening line/sentence: Chocolate is made from cacao beans.
Brief Book Summary: This is a short detailed how-to-book explaining to young children how chocolate is made from cacao beans. The process starts from grinding down cacao beans to adding additional material to the grinded cacao beans to ultimately forming smooth yummy chocolate.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1: Marilyn Courtot (Children's Literature)
Who would have guessed that something as delicious as chocolate comes from cacao beans? Chocolate is made in factories because the beans are roasted, ground and turned into a paste that is mixed with powdered milk and sugar. The chocolate can then be processed into many delicious confections--some of which are shown on a page that might make your mouth water. The book concludes with a list of new words that includes pronunciation and definitions, a couple of books for more information, a web site reference, an index, and some information about the author and the series. How Thing are Made is part of the larger series of Welcome Books.
Professional Recommendation/Review #2: Kathy Haule (The Lorgnette - Heart of Texas Reviews (Vol. 16, No. 1))
This easy-to-read nonfiction is part of the Welcome Books: How Things Are Made series from Children's Press. The narrative traces the production of chocolate from cacao bean to candy. Every page has a clear, simple photograph of the step described in one or two sentences on the facing page. The binding appears durable and appropriate for small hands. A glossary of key words and a list of reference books appear in the back of the book. This would be good to use with upper elementary students reading below grade level as well.
Response to Two Professional Reviews: I completely agree with what both of these professional reviews above stated. This book is great for young children in the young elementary grades. The step by step processes helps students reading following the complete process of turning beans into chocolate. I also took notice to the glossary at the end of the book, which I loved it and really like about these sets of how-to books.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: This book is very simple and great for young readers. There are a few things that I took notice to in this book that I loved. One was the glossary of new words and definitions at the end of the book. This is a wonderful idea for young new learners and I thought this would be especially great for ELLs! Another element I liked from this how-to book was how the author bolded important words on each page in the steps of making chocolate. This sticks out to young readers and helps them notice and realize what is important when reading this book.
Consideration of Instructional Application: So I am from around Harrisburg, PA which is extremely close to Hershey, PA and this book instantly made me think of the chocolate world tour at Chocolate World in Hershey. If I had the chance to take my students to Chocolate World in Hershey on a field trip I would definitely share this book with my class. Each page of this text is clearly shown on the tour and I think this would be a great book to study before going on the tour with young learners. You then could make it educational and have them point out these steps on a worksheet while visiting Chocolate World. Another idea I had was bring in cacao beans to my class and having my students smell them and touch them and make predications to what they can do with cacao beans and then share this book with them. We could go over the idea that using the world’s natural resources to make our food is a wonderful idea and how these little cacao beans can make such yummy chocolate.
October 24, 2012
Summary
Many children love chocolate and would like to know where it comes from. This book takes us step by step into the process that is used to make chocolate. Chocolate is made from cocoa beans. The beans are cooked, grinded, mixed with other ingredients, and much more.
Response
I give this book 5 stars. This book was informational and it could help to increase knowledge. Many children may be fascinated to learn about the production of chocolate because most children love candy. This book reminds me of the time when we studied peanuts in a middle school science class. My teacher attempted to make peanut butter in the blender and we tasted the finished product.
Classroom Connection
I would use this book to help the students learn about sequence. I would ask the students to pick some of the steps from the book and put them in order according to the procedure explained in the book. Students will be allowed to draw pictures to go with the steps they chose to write about.
Text Complexity
This book is 200 Lexile and GR level G. This book is appropriate for grades K to 2nd.
Many children love chocolate and would like to know where it comes from. This book takes us step by step into the process that is used to make chocolate. Chocolate is made from cocoa beans. The beans are cooked, grinded, mixed with other ingredients, and much more.
Response
I give this book 5 stars. This book was informational and it could help to increase knowledge. Many children may be fascinated to learn about the production of chocolate because most children love candy. This book reminds me of the time when we studied peanuts in a middle school science class. My teacher attempted to make peanut butter in the blender and we tasted the finished product.
Classroom Connection
I would use this book to help the students learn about sequence. I would ask the students to pick some of the steps from the book and put them in order according to the procedure explained in the book. Students will be allowed to draw pictures to go with the steps they chose to write about.
Text Complexity
This book is 200 Lexile and GR level G. This book is appropriate for grades K to 2nd.
March 4, 2009
The process of cocoa beans turning into chocolate in a factory.
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