Sweet!: The Delicious Story of Candy

by Jane Drake and Ann Love

Book Overview

Through time and across continents, stories of sweets and their inventors intrigue and entertain us. Learn about primal sweets -- from honey, sweet milk, and nuts to sugar candy, chocolate, and "sweet" stories of success.

Sweet The Delicious Story of Candy takes us through history from 4,000 B.C., when islanders in Papua New Guinea cut sugarcane for its sap, and 2,600 B.C., when the first-known beekeepers produced honey to embalm the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887769624
• ISBN13: 9780887769627
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fun history of candy makers and candy-making history

Ann Love and Jane Drake's SWEET! THE DELICIOUS STORY OF CANDY provides a fun history of candy makers and candy-making history, covering both world history and centuries of events to consider how candy evolved. From a map of popular sweets around the world and insights into the chemistry and attraction of chocolate to accounts of prehistoric beekeeping and the invention of caramel in Arabia, which was used as a hair remover, SWEET: THE DELICIOUS STORY OF CANDY will prove an inviting, compelling survey for grades 4-6.