The Chocolate Touch

The Chocolate Touch Reviewed by Jude FosterThe Chocolate Touch is the story of a boy named John Midas. John is a nice boy who gets in trouble once in a while but is mostly good. He has a nice mom and dad, a little sister, and lives a happy life. His one bad fault is eating too much candy. He likes all candy, but especially chocolate. He spends all his money on candy and never shares the candy he buys. One day, while walking to the candy shop, he finds a coin on the sidewalk. It reads, "JM" on one side and has a picture of a fat boy on the other side. He thinks that is interesting because "JM" are his initials. He goes into the shop and asks if he could use the coin to buy anything. The man says that it is the only kind of money he accepts. John buys a big box of chocolate, takes it home, goes to bed, and eats a bite before falling asleep. The next morning, this toothpaste tastes like chocolate, so he eats it. When he drinks his orange juice, it tastes like chocolate. He drinks the whole glass even though he doesn't like orange juice. Even his bacon and eggs taste like chocolate. John has a habit of chewing on his gloves when he's thinking about something. So when he chews on his gloves he eats right through the leather because it tastes like chocolate. That day he eats half of a friend's silver dollar and drinks chocolate from the water fountain. John starts to get tired of chocolate. Finally it goes too far when he gets a kiss from his mom. He wishes he had never eaten that special chocolate he bought with the special coin. He runs to the candy shop, talks to the shop owner, and learns an important lesson on being greedy and wanting too much of a good thing. I recommend this book. It is fun, entertaining, and easy to read.

I love this book. Read it every year to my second graders. My last copy was old and fell apart. Bought a new copy and it is perfect.

Just like I remember as a kid. Brought for my 9 year old. Easy read keeps interest! Home school approved

This book helped me understand a moral when staying funny and a page-turner.One thing it gave me was a deathly fear of chocolate.This book is about a boy named John Midas who loves chocolate. He'll eat chocolate breakfast, lunch, and dinner if he could.One day, he was going to his friend's house when he turned left where he usually turned right. He saw a coin with JM printed on it. As he walked, there was a chocolate store. He looked inside from the window when the man beckoned him in. The man said John could buy a very fine Deluxechocolate, and after eating the chocolate, everything inside his mouth turns into chocolate. Worse, he enjoys it at first, but soon he gets very thirsty. The power gets more powerful, and when he kisses his mother the chocolate spreads, resulting a lifeless statue. Will he fix the curse? Or would he have to have a chocolate statue as his mother? Read the story!!!

Every child must read this book! It's a modern take on the King Midas gold touch story.

Read this book when I was little, liked it, found it again, bought it, and liked it. Short read but good either way. Also love the cover its so yummy.

We got this book because my daughter had a book report on this book, and at the time the only way my daughter could read it was from the computer and she was having difficulties getting it to load up right and she wasn't always able to go back to look over on something if she needed to. So I purchased the book for her. And it turned out to be such a cute funny story and now she can read it again after the book report and she's still enjoying it. I recommend getting the book it's a cute story for kids and it does teach a good valuable lesson to not be so conceited with yourself and other things. But it's a cute fun funny good lessons to be taught as well and hopefully your child will enjoy it over and over!

I’m happy that my kids are enjoying this book. Great for any age. My little one loves to be read to and the older ones read it by themselves… I’m enjoying reading it:)

O LIVRO CHEGOU AMASSADO COMO SE JÁ TIVESSE SIDO USADO.

I bought this book to read to my class. The children LOVED the story! Children enjoyed predicting what would happen next. The moral of the story was an important one for my young children to hear. I have been hard pressed to find another book they enjoy as much.

Estoy leyendo estelibro con mis alumnos, y les encanto!! La lección que transmite esta muy buena!!!

I read this book when I was a kid, so I bought it and read it again. John Midas, like most kids, is mad about candy, especially chocolate, and he's a bit of a pain but a nice lad, apparently. He comes across a mysterious candy shop one day and the shopkeeper is equally mysterious. On the way there he finds a mysterious coin with a fat boy on it and his own initials; he could give it to his friend Susan to start a coin collection, but naaahh, he'd rather go and spend it in there. And surprisingly it is enough to buy a huge, fancy box of chocolates with. So he sneaks back home with it - through the back, to avoid being caught and told off - and hides it under his bed until bedtime. When it finally is bedtime, he opens up the box, takes out wrapper after wrapper and finds that the only chocolate in it is a small golden ball. He's a bit disappointed but he eats it anyway and it's delish. When he cleans his teeth the next morning he finds that the toothpaste tastes like chocolate - how did that happen? It's strange, but it still tastes delish. His little sister Mary thinks he's bluffing. But then the same thing happens when he's eating his breakfast; his bacon and eggs taste like chocolate somehow, his toast is suddenly chocolate flavoured, the butter becomes chocolate spread, marmalade basically becomes a kind of chocolate jam, and orange juice becomes chocolate juice. On his way to school he mistakenly puts the tip of his thumb in his mouth while he's got his old leather gloves on, and they turn into chocolate too. He gets pounced on by the school bully Spider Wilson who thinks he's being freakish, then tries to eat the gloves himself, only find, disgustedly, that it doesn't work for him. Eventually John realises it; the sweet he ate last night has given him a magic touch that enables him to turn anything that touches his mouth into chocolate. He turns his pencil into a chocolate pencil during a test and the list goes on... the novelty soon begins to wear off and at lunchtime he longs to taste something else for a change. He tries to eat his lunch in a way that doesn't touch his mouth but, damn and blast, it all turns into chocolate, and even the bloody cutlery and the glass he's drank from are transformed into cocao sculptures. He also loses his best friend Susan when he ruins a trinket of hers by making the mistake of putting it into his mouth. And then his precious trumpet is ruined - you can imagine what happened and how. Despite their early fallout, he goes to Susan's party and a game of duck apple gets ruined - I'll leave the details to your imagination. He is sick and tired of it all now, and wants it to stop. His dad sorts him out and he tries to show him the sweet shop, only to find that it has been bulldozed 😮 So Dad takes him to the doctor, who sees the whole weird phenomenon for himself, along with John's parents, when John tries to take a spoon of medicine. His parents are understandably very upset about their son's mysterious condition, and for once John is concerned about his parents. While comforting his tearful mum he accidentally turns her into a chocolate statue - shock, horror! 😮 It is the last straw, so he runs out of the house in exasperation, stumbles across where the sweet shop was and find that it's back there again, almost exactly as it was 😮 In the window he finds every single thing that has been turned into chocolate by him. He goes in and pleads with the man, vowing to change his ways, begging for his mum to be brought back to life. He has a talk with the man and realises it has all been a lesson, to teach him not to be selfish and greedy, and that too much of the same food and nothing else gets positively sickening after a while. You do feel sad for him at the point where he has lost his friends and just cannot stand chocolate anymore, but then you are glad for his sake, and his family and friends' sakes, that he has learned his lesson. He goes home and is relieved to find that his mum is back to life, and everything that was turned into chocolate returns to its original form. His wretched chocolate touch is gone and he enjoys a nice glass of milk in the normal way. He wants to go and say a last-minute thank you and goodbye to the shopkeeper, but when he gets there the shop has been mysteriously bulldozed - again 😮 So there you have it 😀 If you think the plot sounds like the kind of story that your child would enjoy, I suggest you buy them this book ☺ It doesn't matter that it was written in the '50s, because the story and the message behind it are the main things.