The Chocolate Wedding

by Posy Simmonds

An overindulgence in chocolate the night before her aunt's wedding causes Lulu to have some very strange dreams

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super cute. I remember “Lulu and the flying babies” from when I was a kid. So when I saw this by the same author I had to pick it up. My kids love it and I enjoyed reading it to them in my best British accent.

[Rodopa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comics style book, with a wonderful fun story about a kid having strange dreams after eating too much chocolate. This is one of a books I have read (Nutcracker being the first) where the story explicitly incorporates a child's dream. One of the dreams is reminiscent of the Nutcracker where in this book chocolate soldiers have to fight real mice.

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute book about a little girls who has a dream about the bride and groom on top of her aunt's wedding cake.