![Maybe its a typo Melissa Stewart and Allen Young Illustrated by Nicole - photo 3](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bg2.jpg)
Maybe its
a typo.
![Melissa Stewart and Allen Young Illustrated by Nicole Wong Listen you - photo 5](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bg4.jpg)
Melissa Stewart and Allen Young
Illustrated by
Nicole Wong
Listen, you
comedian, lets
just keep reading.
That would
make more
cents. Get it?
Sense. Cents.
I bet its
supposed to
be No Money,
No Chocolate.
![Chocolate chip cookies Chocolate ice cream Moist fudgy brownies What - photo 6](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bg5.jpg)
Chocolate chip cookies.
Chocolate ice cream.
Moist, fudgy brownies.
What makes all these desserts so delicious?
Chocolate, of course.
But you cant make chocolate without ...
![Mind your own bookworm business This book is making me hungry I - photo 7](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bg6.jpg)
Mind your own
bookworm
business.
This book is
making me hungry.
I need a snack.
Hey, youll spoil
your dinner.
![cocoa beans Cocoa beans are the seeds of the cocoa tree Cocoa trees - photo 8](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bg7.jpg)
... cocoa beans.
Cocoa beans are the seeds of the cocoa tree. Cocoa trees
grow naturally in the tropical rain forests of Central and
South America. But today farmers grow them in other
tropical areas, too.
To make chocolate, workers spread cocoa beans with
rakes and dry them in the sun. Then they roast them in
a giant oven. Later, machines smash the beans into a
thick paste and squeeze out the liquid to make cocoa
powder. It gets mixed with a variety of ingredients to
make different kinds of chocolate.
![It takes one to know one Its true I read about it in another book - photo 9](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bg8.jpg)
It takes
one to
know one.
Its true. I read
about it in
another book.
Theres a bunch of
beans in this chocolate
bar? Thats ridiculous.
Youre such
a bookworm.
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Cocoa beans cant develop without
cocoa pods.
Cocoa pods are the fruits of the cocoa tree. They
look like small, lumpy footballs growing on the
trees trunk and main branches. Inside each pod,
white, gooey pulp surrounds thirty to forty cocoa
beans just enough for one candy bar.
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Is a cocoa pod
like an iPod?
Very funny. No, its
more like a pea pod.
![Cocoa pods cant form without cocoa flowers When pollen from one cocoa - photo 12](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bgb.jpg)
Cocoa pods cant form without
cocoa flowers ...
When pollen from one cocoa flower lands on
another cocoa flower, a tiny tube opens up
inside the blossom. Pollen travels down the
tube. As soon as material inside the pollen
combines with material deep inside the
flower, a new cocoa pod begins to grow
with seeds inside.
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Plants are
amazing!
Thats what
happens inside a
flower? Plants
are amazing!
You can say
that again!
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... and midges.
Before a female midge can lay
her eggs, the little insect needs a
hearty meal of rich, nutritious cocoa
pollen. To find food, she crawls deep
inside a cocoa blossom. As the midge
climbs out, pollen sticks to her body.
When she lands on another cocoa flower,
some of the pollen falls off and lands inside
the blossom.
![So thats how cocoa flowers get the pollen they need to make pods and - photo 15](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bge.jpg)
So thats how cocoa
flowers get the
pollen they need to
make pods and seeds.
Yup, no midges,
no chocolate.
No midges,
no chocolate.
Hey, is
there an
echo in
here?
![Cocoa flowers cant bloom without cocoa leaves As the cocoa leaves soak - photo 16](/uploads/posts/book/377653/images/bgf.jpg)
Cocoa flowers cant bloom without
cocoa leaves ...
As the cocoa leaves soak up sunlight, they make
sugar. The sugar travels through veins in each leaf
to the trees branches.
Then sugary sap flows through the trunk to the
rest of the tree. Thats how a tree gets the energy it
needs to live and grow and make flowers.
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I thought this
book was
supposed to be
about monkeys.
Well, we arent
done yet. They
must be coming.
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... and maggots.
As soon as leaf-cutter ants spot tender,
new leaves on a cocoa tree, the little insects
race to reach them.
While the hardworking ants slice up the leaves
and carry the pieces back to their nest, female
coffin flies land on the ants and lay eggs inside
their heads.
When the eggs hatch, tiny maggots wriggle out
and eat the ants brains.
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Brain-eating maggots?
Thats disgusting!
Maybe, but Im
glad their
moms lay eggs
inside the ants
that destroy
cocoa leaves.
No coffin
flies, no
chocolate.