How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest? - by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe (Hardcover)

About the Book

"An adventure to experience all five senses at the world's most extreme locations"--

Book Synopsis

An immersive round-the-world adventure, where YOU are the explorer experiencing the most extreme places on earth and doing it all through your five senses.

Have you ever wondered what the buzz of the rain forest sounds like on a trek through the Amazon? Or how it feels to experience the biting cold as you voyage across Antarctica? Or how chocolate tastes on Mount Everest? From every heart-bursting sight to tummy-lurching smell, you will experience them all-and do so without having to leave the comforts of your couch.

This funny and fast-paced interactive thrill ride that young adventure-seekers are sure to enjoy is chock-full of facts, history, and survival tips peppered on every page.

Review Quotes

Visits to 11 of the most extreme places on Earth--and beyond.

Inviting intrepid young explorers to pack up survival gear and follow along, Stewart-Sharpe leads a zigzag tour that begins in the heat-blasted Danakil Depression of Ethiopia, ends on Mars, and in between roves from the subterranean Krubera Cave in (the country of) Georgia and the benthic Challenger Deep to volcanic Zavodovski Island ("The world's stinkiest place"). Along with proposing such feats as sky-diving to the top of Mount Everest and hauling a pulk (sled) across Antarctica, the author name-drops dozens of actual people, including many with disabilities, who have done the same and also calls attention to each locale's distinctive sights, sounds, scents, sensations, and tastes. Cushley provides such helpful images as a tally of useful supplies but goes mostly for montage-style outdoor scenes populated by local wildlife and small, racially diverse visitors. Even seasoned armchair travelers will not only encounter some unfamiliar places, but are likely to find all of them more memorable for the sensory notes about, for instance, the taste of piranha ("weirdly 'muddy' "), the smell of a lightning storm over Lake Maracaibo, or the feeling of a venomous mulga snake gliding over a boot in the Australian Outback. A reminder to take care of our planet plus the leading question "But where to next?" add suitable closing notes.

Strong appeals to the sense of adventure as well as the typical other five. (glossary)

--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Leisa Stewart-Sharpe is a journalist turned children's author who grew up in Australia. She has traveled and adventured all over the world. Leisa has come face-to-face with an aye-aye in the Madagascan jungle, sweated across the grasslands of Kenya (chased by a herd of elephants!), and has snorkeled with sharks Down Under. Today Leisa writes children's books from a shed in her English garden, including her bestselling nonfiction books. All of her books have one thing in common: they're about wild animals in wild places and written for wild children.

Aaron Cushley is an illustrator and doodler of dogs. He studied illustration and graphic design at the University of Ulster, Belfast School of Art. Aaron's work stems from his inner child and the innocence and creativity that emerges whenever he takes a pencil into his hand. He's illustrated many books for children, including If the World Were 100 People: A Visual Guide to Our Global Village. www.aaroncushley.com