I would have loved this as a kid! At my library there are a lot of kids that come in for new non-fiction books, and I can't wait to show them this book! It is adorable and filled with so many facts!

This was a very fun book. I like that most of the text is in second person, speaking directly to the reader, giving an interactive feel, "your parents are expecting a post card at every stop, so you'd better pack a pen, too." It's a very good mix of learning about how to be an adventurer/ imagining you're in the extreme location and informational asides about historical explorers and geographical facts. Each location has a two page spread of introductory information and setting the scene, getting the reader to imagine being there. Then the next two page spread explores the sensory experience of being there, with five scenarios where you use your senses to hear the sled dogs, taste the raw halibut, feel the temperature plummet, smell the wet fur of the polar bear, and see the aurora. and then you're off to the next amazing location! The illustrations bring the text to life with full page, full color illustrations. This is a great book for people interested in geography or exploration, and would be a fun entry point into learning more about topics like the countries, climate and weather, or transportation.

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The best thing about this book are the illustrations, but the information about the different places is also great. They illustrations are impressive, and the best part is the huge attention to detail. They're not only fantastic, but the story plot is also very nice (I wouldn't say that the vocabulary is easy for some kids) and I believe it can lead to other conversations about the world, different countries and diversity.

I want to thank NetGalley for allowing me to read this book.

Told in a format used by alot of kids atlas books, this packs alot of infomation. The book goes through several different places and gives in depth detail in a way that feels immersive. This is done through describing how the reader's five senses would be impacted in each area. It also included several survival tips, historical facts about explorers and statistics from the trip at the end of the story. This book is bound to be a hit with younger kids who are interested in exploration.

I enjoyed the experience of reading this book! The artwork and sensory descriptions transport you to each of the exotic and mysterious places around the world! The information presents viewpoints for readers interested in exploring the natural world. As a biology teacher, I would love to have a copy of this in my classroom for my 9th grade students to explore! #HowDoesChocolateTasteonEverest #NetGalley

How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest is a book I need for my classroom, especially for geography. The narrator takes you on a journey to close to 30 different unusual places and explores it through the senses. I can imagine kids wanting to read this with a partner because they’ll be shouting interesting facts from across the room to each other.

In this ode to adventurers, the author uses a journal style to provide tips surviving and exploring eleven of most extreme places on earth. Embedded in the sensorial journey via the sight, sound, smell, feel, taste and smell, are historical tidbits of each place. Some of these places are well known, but others are relatively obscure. Sure to inspire a new generation of explorers, and the illustrations will keep the pages turning. Excellent back matter.
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What a great concept of a book! Educational but also so fun and colorful. I loved how it included facts, letters, speech bubbles and pages that would make you turn the book around in your hands. I would love to have this in my classroom library.

This book transports you to some of the world’s most extreme places: hottest, longest river, darkest, most magical, highest, deepest, most secret, most electric, harshest, stinkiest and coldest, as well as somewhere that’s out of this world.

It invites you to use your imagination, casting you as the explorer. You pack your bag, use different modes of transport and experience each location via your senses.

Along the way, you get to read the postcards you send your parents. Not all readers will have a mother and father they’d be sending postcards to if they were on a round the world adventure, though, so I would have preferred it if the postcards were addressed to a friend instead.

You’ll find a glossary at the end of the book for the trickier words.

The second person point of view was engaging. It brought to mind the Choose Your Own Adventures of my childhood (minus all of the choices). It’s the type of book where your learning is accidental because you’re busy enjoying the ride.

This journey through the senses hooked me by including ‘chocolate’ in the title. I was most looking forward to learning some new fun facts. Because this non fiction book reads like a story, it wasn’t as chock-a-block with facts as I had hoped but, having said that, I was more entertained than I’d expected.

Because I can’t read fun facts without sharing some, here are my top five:

A dromedary, which is a camel, can drink 50 gallons of water in three minutes. That’s 189 litres!

“When Russian priest Fedor Konyukhov flew his balloon around the world in 2016, he survived for eleven days with only half-hour naps. To keep himself awake and avoid crashing, he held a spoon between his fingers. If he dozed off, the spoon would clank onto the floor and wake him up!”

Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei survived an avalanche before becoming the first woman to climb Everest in 1975.

Venezuela’s Catatumbo lightning “lasts around ten hours every night about 297 days a year.”

“Pablo Signoret, Rafael Bridi, and Guilherme Coury set a record when they walked a 656-foot-long slackline between two peaks of the French Alps, 10,000 feet above ground!”

The illustrations are colourful, the amount of text per page isn’t overwhelming and the layout is uncluttered.

And the answer to the question the book’s title raises? Suffice to say, the summit of Everest may be the only place on Earth you won’t see me eating chocolate.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Charlesbridge for the opportunity to read this book.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a cute book!

It highlights extreme locations around the world through the five senses. It's a colorful book for kids that helps them learn about other places as well as things like taste and smell. It's a unique and informative book that makes a nice read.

How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest is a fantastic book full of interesting facts about some of the most extreme places on Earth (and beyond). Even as an adult I learned many new things. The illustrations are a perfect accompaniment to the text, and together they make for a very visually appealing book.

The adventure guide format is so cute, and perfect for this exploration of our 5 senses! They did a great job of bringing us to different parts of the world, giving readers information on different environments, cultures and animal life. The facts are subtly threaded throughout making the reader forget their reading a non-fiction title, but the facts are interesting and could easily be used for a project or report on any of these locations. Highly recommended for any non-fiction collection.

• How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest? By Leisa Stewart Sharpe, Illustrated by Aaron Cushley
Have you ever wondered how it would be like to go on an expedition on the hottest place on earth, the Danakil depression, Ethiopia? Would you envisage yourself in the world’s deepest place, the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific? Well, if you want to perceive, process, & imbibe the earth’s most extreme places, just dive into the pages of the book ‘How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest’ & experience the unseen world.
An unparalleled storytelling to fully captivate readers via all the senses into a riveting journey to the most thrilling places in the world. The book ‘How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest, answers questions to how chocolate tastes on a high altitude like the Everest or take a dip into the secret world of the Amazon rainforest, the longest river or the darkest , harshest place on the planet.
Readers will be surrounded by a multi-sensory experience, and all without leaving the couch. The book gives an exact account of how one would feel, hear, smell, taste & see the superlative experience of nature’s quest in the book.
The book guides its readers to pack precisely while on the adventure. It also describes the daredevil feats undertaken by Paralympians & some brave explorers. I bet the readers will be eager to go on this journey from start to finish.

I received a digital copy of "How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest" in exchange for an honest and thoughtful review.

"How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest" is a delightful children's book that successfully immerses young readers in a thrilling adventure. The story's clever approach of placing the child as the protagonist allows for a highly immersive and engaging reading experience. Readers will feel as though they are exploring the world's most extreme environments fostering a sense of excitement and curiosity. The topic provides a unique perspective, engaging the readers senses through imagination on every page.

As a homeschooling parent, I feel I will be reaching for this book often. The unique facts and adventure-oriented narrative helps to engage young minds in the riveting world of geography. Overall, "How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest" successfully combines immersive storytelling with educational value. It is a highly recommended book, offering both an enjoyable adventure and a chance to learn about their five senses, as well as various places on our beautiful planet.

How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest? by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe - 5/5

Who wouldn't want to know how chocolate tastes on Everest? To explore different places on earth through sight, sound, smell, touch and taste this children's book is full of surprises and fun. I love the cover of this book, all the colors and the animals. It grabs your attention, and you want to take a peek. This is a fast-paced interactive read that will all any young adventure-seekers a chance to learn facts, some history and along the way.


Children's Nonfiction - Science - Travel
Available for purchase September 2023
Thank you NetGalley and Charlesbridge for the eARC.

This is a really fun idea with lots of cool facts about some really intense environments and it’s interesting to imagine these environments using the different senses. It’s great for kids and adults will probably learn some things too. The illustrations are vivid and appealing and super cute. My only small issue was the constant focus on “mom and dad” and lines like “Good thing you practiced changing tires on your dad’s car”, since the book is the perspective of the reader imagining themselves going on this adventure and not everyone has the same family situation.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this creative way of exploring some of the world's greatest wonders. Perfect for children but even as an adult there's still a little to learn. The illustrations are beautiful as well.

This book is so beautiful and so cute! The illustrations are absolutely phenomenal and the text is scattered throughout the page to make it exciting and engaging. Each page has just enough information without being overwhelming and you definitely feel smarter after reading each page! I am now planning on buying a copy for my son when he is older - and he is only five months old right now, that's how much I loved this book.

This was an excellent adventure story! It uses second person (you) and all five senses to really draw the reader in to the adventure and exploration of several fascinating extreme places. It's very exciting and highlights all the fascinating sights but also includes the danger one would face on such an expedition and dangers that previous explorers of that place throughout history have faced.

I found myself completely enthralled by the story. I will say it's probably not appropriate for a bedtime book for my 3rd grader which is what I had intended to read it for. My kiddo is very sensitive and hates any kind of suspense so I can imagine that this book's way of making the reader feel the danger would not result in good dreams.

The illustrations are colorful and vibrant and the text's occasionally humorous and always breathless tone balances the danger and suspense and makes for a very fun and exciting read.

I suspect that most elementary- and middle-school aged kids would love this.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Charlesbridge for providing an early copy for review.

Literally incredible! A must have! This is a one of a kind book - totally unique, and such a fun read!

This book isn’t just enjoyable for children, it is for us adults as well. The book truly takes you on a journey of a lifetime. You truly feel like you are right there at each destination! We are in awe over this book.

The story is so educational & engaging. The fact that it combines the 5 senses to describe every location is so unique, we have never seen this before!

The illustrations colorful, inviting and vivid! They really give you a sense of each location.

My family and I really enjoyed reading this book, and we can not wait to be able to get a hard copy of this book!