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Chocolate Magic
Mary Midas has fallen in love with chocolate. She has read every book about it, spends all her pocket money on it and she can't stop gobbling it! But a holiday in America is no fun when everything Mary touches turns to chocolate - even the President.
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2000
About the author
Patrick Skene Catling
28 books49 followersPatrick Skene Catling is a British children's book author and book reviewer best known for writing The Chocolate Touch in 1952.
Catling was born and schooled in London and was educated there and at Oberlin College in the United States. Catling served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a navigator and as a journalist at The Baltimore Sun and The Manchester Guardian.
He has traveled extensively. His present home is in the Republic of Ireland. He continues writing books, and writes reviews for The Spectator, The Telegraph, and other publications.
His first publication of The Chocolate Touch in 1952 received enthusiastic responses from several reviewers. The New York Herald Tribune remarked, "it has already proved a hilarious success with children," and The Saturday Review said, "it is told with an engaging humor that boys and girls will instantly discover and approve." Catling has since written dozens of books, and has developed the popular The Chocolate Touch character John Midas into the children's book series: John Midas in the Dreamtime (1986), John Midas and the Vampires (1994), John Midas and the Radio Touch (1994), and John Midas and the Rock Star (1995). Of John Midas in the Dreamtime, School Library Journal wrote, "...children who have been dragged around tourist sights will relate to John's boredom".
Catling was born and schooled in London and was educated there and at Oberlin College in the United States. Catling served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a navigator and as a journalist at The Baltimore Sun and The Manchester Guardian.
He has traveled extensively. His present home is in the Republic of Ireland. He continues writing books, and writes reviews for The Spectator, The Telegraph, and other publications.
His first publication of The Chocolate Touch in 1952 received enthusiastic responses from several reviewers. The New York Herald Tribune remarked, "it has already proved a hilarious success with children," and The Saturday Review said, "it is told with an engaging humor that boys and girls will instantly discover and approve." Catling has since written dozens of books, and has developed the popular The Chocolate Touch character John Midas into the children's book series: John Midas in the Dreamtime (1986), John Midas and the Vampires (1994), John Midas and the Radio Touch (1994), and John Midas and the Rock Star (1995). Of John Midas in the Dreamtime, School Library Journal wrote, "...children who have been dragged around tourist sights will relate to John's boredom".
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June 8, 2015
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This book is amazing funny and sad at the same time hopfully there is more coming out.
My favourite part is when she went to the shop and went to the old man and he gave her a strange coin to get a magic box of chocolate and she ate it in the night and that gave her the magic touch. My second favourite part is when she turns the pool Mickey Mouse the Presindent and her brother into to chocolate really funny.
Im telling you READ THIS BOOK.
This book is amazing funny and sad at the same time hopfully there is more coming out.
My favourite part is when she went to the shop and went to the old man and he gave her a strange coin to get a magic box of chocolate and she ate it in the night and that gave her the magic touch. My second favourite part is when she turns the pool Mickey Mouse the Presindent and her brother into to chocolate really funny.
Im telling you READ THIS BOOK.
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