He can't resist the temptation and walks in. And just a few moments later, he sees a candy shop he doesn't recall ever seeing before. Then one day, John happens upon a strange coin. Midas are forced to give him a daily vitamin just so he doesn't shrivel up and die of malnutrition. To say that John Midas has a sugar addiction would be an understatement (he and Buddy the Elf would get along famously). I wouldn't have wanted to miss that for the world. I don't know that a book has ever teased so many waves of uncontrollable laughter out of my kids. It looked short and very juvenile, and I was pretty sure it was going to be one of those books I endured for the sake of my kids. By that time, I considered just handing off The Chocolate Touch to Aaron to read on his own. I blame it on Poppy, whose back cover summary pulled in both Aaron and Max, and then we weren't ready to leave her so we moved on to Poppy and Rye. We had this book checked out from the library for weeks before we finally got around to reading it. I'm trying to get caught up before my mid-year recap, and I still have a few left to go. You may have noticed the influx in book reviews this week.
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