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The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart Combines Fun and Adventure (With Chocolate!)
First off, I fell in love with this book. The main character in Stephanie Burgis’ The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart is a young dragon named Aventurine who is tricked into drinking an enchanted hot chocolate which turns her from a dragon to a girl. In the process of this transformation, Aventurine discovers she has a passion for chocolate. Dragons + chocolate? Sign me up! And it only gets better from there.
Aventurine comes from a large family of dragons who live in the mountain caves, and in the beginning of the book she is frustrated that they won’t let her do anything. Can she fly outside the cave? Nope. Can she hunt with the older dragons? No way. Not for at least 30 more years, when her wings are better developed and hardened to withstand danger from wolves or humans. So Aventurine decides to take matters into her own hands and ventures outside the cave, determined to prove herself by capturing a human. Soon, she stumbles upon the aforesaid enchanted hot chocolate via a food mage (who is like a magician), and finds herself without wings, without fire, and without sharp claws or teeth! Instead, she’s become a human girl herself, one who looks to be about 12 years old! What’s a former dragon to do? Find more chocolate, of course!
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Aventurine eventually finds herself in town where she seeks a way to become an apprentice at a chocolate house—a place where she will learn how to make this amazing hot chocolate and more! She is eventually hired by master chocolatier Marina at a hole-in-the-wall chocolate house called The Chocolate Heart, which doesn’t seem to have many customers. But no matter; Aventurine is well on her way to enjoying a life of working with chocolate, except for the small fact that she really misses her dragon family. Aventurine also befriends a young girl name Silke, who couldn’t be a better friend to her, even when Aventurine doesn’t realize that’s what she’s doing. But The Chocolate Heart is having trouble staying in business, mainly because of some troublemakers in the lord mayor’s office, and there are rumors flying around town that dragons have been sighted…
What can Aventurine do help both her chocolate house and the people she has come to know there? And will her dragon family know that she is still Aventurine, even though she is now a human?
Author Stephanie Burgis delivers both adventure and fun in this sweet, delectable story about dragons and chocolate, and she has written a wonderful character in Aventurine. Middle grade readers will enjoy watching her come into her own and develop self-confidence as she pursues her newfound passion. And they will cheer Aventurine on as she makes friends, navigates a new town all on her own, and realizes she can be both a dragon and a girl at heart.
The Dragon With a Chocolate Heart is on B&N bookshelves May 30; you can pre-order it now!