Mason and Hannah Cabot have their hands full with Labrador pups Cocoa, Nilla, and Licorice. Keeping chocolate away from candy-crazy Cocoa is practically a full-time job! But when a rival candy company tries to put the Cabots' chocolate shop out of business, Mason knows he's got another job to do. He isn't about to let some big corporation steal their recipes, take their customers, or mess with their puppies. This means war!
My daughter picked this one as part of their Scholastic shopping at school. I read it to her over a week or so at breakfast.
There's a family chocolate business about to be taken over by a thieving, cunning representative from a big candy corporation. Contrary to what the cover suggests, the protagonists are not the dogs, but his owners, a boy and a girl. The dogs rarely appear.
As you can imagine, the kids save the day and we're all happy.
I gave it four stars because the final ruse to get rid of the bad guys was completely unrealistic. Spoiler: they ruin his reputation by feeding him a chocolate recipe that's actually very spicy and the guy ends up giving it to the whole town...like no one would check or taste the product.
Anyways, the book is cute and I enjoyed the moments with my little one.
{My thoughts} – Mason, Hannah and Alan are at it again in this all new book by Eric Luper. This book is mostly based on a huge corporation that is trying to take both Mason and Hannah’s chocolate shop and Alan’s chocolate shop out of business.
The individual that was working to help the large corporation made a big mess of things. He caused a lot of trouble and made things really difficult for all parties involved. However, it came down to the small town in which Mason, Hannah and Alan live in was ready to commit top the corporation. It just took them all awhile to figure out what they really wanted in their small town.
I think that any child that loves dog’s will love these books. These books are packed with factual historical information, with factual information about dogs and how chocolate can hurt them, and about factual information about animal rescue.
It makes me sad that there aren’t any new books coming out in the series and I really think that there should be. These books are absolutely incredible. The covers are colorful, attention grabbing and appealing. Any child would be blessed to get a copy of one of these brilliant books to read.