Chocolate Fever

Chocolate Fever was another one of my outside reading books! I liked this book very much, because I do'nt know about you, but chocolate is one of my biggest weaknesses. I am a sucker for chocolate! But this little boy, Henry Green, ate chocolate for every meal, and he like it dark, sweet, anything!! But one day he developed brown dots all over his body, which were full of pure chocolate! It made him feel sick and look ugly. So he ran away from the doctors, from his parents, and the mean bully's on the schoolyard. He ended up on a truck with Mac, driving to no where! They came upon a candy shop where the owner taught Henry a lesson. We can't always have what we want. Because too much of something can make us sick, and have Chocolate Fever. When Henry got home and was cured of his disease, Henry had the will power to reject chocolate syrup for his pancakes. It was a new Henry!!
But I also noticed at the end of the book...Henry decides to try cinnoman on his pancakes. He also think about putting the cinnoman on everything else..getting a little carried away. In this thought, he wondered if there was such a thing as Cinnoman Fever? But the last line, the author just says "What do you think?" I loved this because just like "The Cat in the Hat" it leaves this open for children's imagination to take place. They can believe there is such a thing as Cinnoman Fever, or they can choose to say there is no such thing! The important thing is, they have a choice. But we also learn that we can't always have what we want all the time.