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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Candy – sweet, sugary, all kinds of flavors, all kinds of shapes and sizes. As much as you can eat ... candy! Wouldn’t it be nice? Well, Sam thought so. All he wanted to eat was candy. And he’d throw a tantrum if his parents tried to feed him something healthy. The closest they came to getting Sam to eat healthily was allowing him to dip his chicken fingers in chocolate fondue.
Now, anyone who’s been a parent knows how difficult it is to get children to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Sweets in moderation are okay, but too much of anything, especially sweets, is not good for anyone. Sam had to learn this the hard way. One day, in the grocery store with his mom, he found the candy aisle. He was in candy heaven. He insisted on his mom buying everything. At home, he went to sleep trying to devour all of the candy. For seventeen hours straight, Sam ate candy and only candy. Well, you can just imagine what happened, and the end result was a lesson well learned.
Brian and Kristin Anderson’s picture book story, Candy Monster, is a delightful romp through a childhood fantasy land of sweets. The colorful illustrations help carry this somewhat humorous story along. There are great lessons to learn from this story; most importantly, everything in moderation. It’s a lesson for both young and older readers alike. The world is full of temptations and it’s just too easy to get lured by the attraction of something delicious and the desire to overindulge.
