the chocolate touch by patrick skene catling

Then there are the names: John Midas, Doctor Cranium, Mrs. Do you think these words might be related to the book’s message at all? Even the character notices! “t seemed to John as though they all had a special bearing on his present uncomfortable condition.” Sigh. The bright spot is this line spoken by John’s teacher Miss Plimsole in English class: “The more words you know, the more exactly you can think.” True dat.īut then the vocabulary words for the day are ‘avarice’, ‘indigestion’, ‘acidity’, ‘unhealthiness’, ‘moderation’, and ‘digestibility’. So he gets a magical come-uppance by means of a mysterious coin that he spends in a mysterious store on a mysterious box of chocolates containing only one chocolate that makes everything he puts to his mouth turn to chocolate-including, as you might guess from this spectacularly badly chosen cover illustration, his mother. And it’s not just that, he’s selfish about it, too. John Midas (yes, like King Midas who turned everything to gold) eats too much candy. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.This book is alive and kicking after more than sixty years, so it must be popular with kids… but to an adult reader, The Chocolate Touch is not going to come across as subtle. Margot Apple is the author-artist of Blanket and Brave Martha and the illustrator of Appaloosa Zebra: A Horse Lover's Alphabet, Runaway Radish, and the beloved 'Sheep' books, including Sheep in a Jeep and Sheep Trick or Treat. In 2003 Tiggy began participating in her first horse shows in the Western Pleasure Division.

She has three horses: two Morgans (Devil, age twenty-five, and Tiggy, Devil's 1999 filly) and Annie, a quarter horse. The New York Herald Tribune remarked, 'it has already proved a hilarious success with children,' and The Saturday Review said, 'it is told with an engaging humor that boys and girls will instantly discover and approve.'

His present home is in the Republic of Ireland.The original appearance of The Chocolate Touch in 1952 stirred much reviewer enthusiasm. As a Royal Canadian Air Force navigator and as a journalist, he has traveled extensively. Born in London, Patrick Skene Catling was educated there and at Oberlin College in the United States.

The chocolate touch by patrick skene catling