Book Spotlight: Incredible Cacao (Miss Tree Tales Book 2) by Deepa Remesh and Anjana Prabhu-Paseband

SYNOPSIS:

Do you like chocolates? Do you like trees? Did you know that chocolate is made from the seeds of a tree? Join Mia and Nik on a chocolate mission and be a part of their incredible journey. This bean to bar story is sure to delight kids and adults alike.

As special members of Miss Tree’s Plant Savers Club, Mia and Nik travel around the world to learn about different trees and their uses. In this book, they visit a cacao plantation in Costa Rica and a chocolate factory in Switzerland. Have fun gliding with them through a rainforest, exploring a chocolate planet, and collecting seeds for thought.

Have you joined the Plant Savers Club? Together we will Protect, Sustain, Conserve!

AUTHOR BIO:

Deepa Remesh lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two kids. Through her first book series based on trees, she tries to introduce kids to a simple sustainable lifestyle presenting them with numerous seeds for thought to cultivate the values of resourcefulness and conservation.

ILLUSTRATOR BIO:

A researcher by training and an artist by  passion, Anjana Prabhu-Paseband lives with her husband in Paris, France. She believes in expressing oneself, and art is the medium she uses to connect with people around the world.

MY REVIEW:

Incredible Cacao (Miss Tree Tales Book 2)
by Deepa Remesh and Anjana Prabhu-Paseband
Starts with a dedication page and acknowledgements and the chapter listings.
Love hearing of the analogy between the seed and the start of this series-precious treasure!
Mia and Nik join the Plant Savers Club and their parents teach them about gardening, in their own back yard.
So many educational things they learn just in this exercise.
The illustrations are showing things that are going on in the story, there are a few for each chapter.
They are selected to go to Costa Rica where cacao comes from-it's a chocolate tree.
Once they land and become their full size they join up with a family that raises the trees. They are told all about not only the tree itself but the process of how to make it into chocolate.
They are taught so many cool things that I didn't even know about. So happy I picked up this book today. It's so fun and adventurous and mysterious at the same time.
There is a lot of history and I love the talk about grafting trees. I come from a family of nurserymen and have a green thumb.
Such cool devices they carry with them to record everything they do, see, eat and experiment with. They are able to have fun as kids also.
What I think I like the best are the Q&A at the very end of the book. It asks questions and gives you the answers if you didn't recall them from the story.
There are fun things to do along the way throughout the book.
Seed book shows you how to record the tree and a lot of things about it. so cool! Seed devices are also shown illustrated.
About the author and illustrator are included at the end.
Can't wait to read more from this duo! Love how this book promotes the younger ones to get involved with trees and planting because due to our climate change things will get harder.
Received this review copy from the author and this is my honest opinion.