Chocolate Tree: [A Mayan Folktale] (On My Own Folklore)

used this book to do a chocolate workshop with my daughter's class as part of there food and drink theme. really lovely story and helped make linksm with hostory. geography and allsorts. loved making the hot chocolate with them going from a whole bean to a ground etc too.

This book is very simple in structure, but gives a good outline of the story of how Kukulkan gave chocolate to the Mayan people. As part of trying to develop a Mayan topic for the 2014 curriculum, I used this for a bit of up levelling work (with year 5) exploring how to turn the simple sentences into a more engaging narrative.

A simple version of the Mayan myth but entertaining for children. Have used it in school with my year 4 class and have also used it previously with 3 year. The basic language and sentence structure means that there is plenty for scope for work on improving it with more descriptive language and the illustrations are also brilliant for inspiration for writing pieces.

Such a lovely story. I used it with my year 6 class, they were totally hooked.

I bought this book for my 8yr old daughter who studied the ancient Mayans/history of cocoa at school. She loved it, and the teacher loved it so much she didn't only base a lot of their work around the book, but also got her own copy. They even had a chocolatier come in and make a chocolate tree with them!

My class read this as part of their topic and we wrote reviews. One pupil wrote:I am in year 5 and we are learning about the Maya, so we read this book. It is an interesting folk tale about the cacao tree, which was stolen from Paradise by Kukulkan and given as a present to the Mayan people.One good thing about the story is what it told us about the Mayan culture and way of life. I learnt the types of gods they had and how they watched the Mayan people at night. Also, I found out why chocolate is special to the Mayan people. Finally, the brilliant illustrations show how the people lived and how their temples looked. I would recommend this book because it gives interesting facts in a fun way.

Ordered in an emergency, came really quickly and perfect quality. Great book

Great item

art camp: we made puppets based on the main characters and ate chocolate after reading this. beautiful illustrations.

Loved this book so much that a bought second copy to gift to our children's school library. The story is captivating for anyone who enjoys learning about Mayan myths and chocolate. It should be noted that the original myth is presented with fictional embellishments but the author does a good joy of presenting a compelling story that makes you want to learn more about Mayan culture and history. Contains great illustrations and a good glossary.

I got this for my daughter as a way to reconnect to our true culture and she really loved the book, shes a bit older but still loved the story a lot! 10/10 recommend this book for anyone who wishes to learn about native American mythologies, epic stories or wise tales

A lovely folktale w colorful primitive illustration. My children are from Guatemala so this story was a real treat. Their teacher is using this story as part of cindi de mayo classroom celebration.

It's an interesting story and well illustrated. Wish it was available in Spanish.