Sweet!: The Delicious Story of Candy

By Jane Drake and Ann Love

Book Overview

Through time and across continents, stories of sweets and their inventors intrigue and entertain us. Learn about primal sweets -- from honey, sweet milk, and nuts to sugar candy, chocolate, and "sweet" stories of success.

Sweet The Delicious Story of Candy takes us through history from 4,000 B.C., when islanders in Papua New Guinea cut sugarcane for its sap, and 2,600 B.C., when the first-known beekeepers produced honey to embalm the dead, to 500 A.D., when the Chinese made pear and plum syrups from unripe fruit, and all the way through to the world's first chocoholics and modern-day candy factories.

From cravings to the scoop on ice cream, Ann Love and Jane Drake present a comprehensive and irresistible story of candy through the ages, complemented by a detailed timeline and playful illustrations from artist Claudia D vila.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887769624
• ISBN13: 9780887769627
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fun history of candy makers and candy-making history

Ann Love and Jane Drake's SWEET! THE DELICIOUS STORY OF CANDY provides a fun history of candy makers and candy-making history, covering both world history and centuries of events to consider how candy evolved. From a map of popular sweets around the world and insights into the chemistry and attraction of chocolate to accounts of prehistoric beekeeping and the invention of caramel in Arabia, which was used as a hair remover, SWEET: THE DELICIOUS STORY OF CANDY will prove an inviting, compelling survey for grades 4-6.