No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart, Allen Yong, Nicole Wong poetry tea time The tiny cricket tries to

The tiny cricket tries to respond

and author

They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier

so she never thought of becoming anything except an illustrator

she is able to show everyone that not only is her creation quite beautiful

No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart, Allen Yong, Nicole Wong poetry tea time The tiny cricket tries toEveryone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it's made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn't survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen sucking midge, an aphid munching anole lizard, brain eating coffin fly maggots