Chocolate Escapade

By Kirsten Hammann

A fantastic phantasy about a land where everything consists of chocolate - the drainpipes can be eaten, you take your morning bath in liquid chocolate, and you cope with the dishwashing by eating the (chocolate) plates - that´s what Kirsten Hammann´s children´s book is about. We are told the story, in rhymed verse, about how the narrator arrives in this El Dorado by magic when she breaks a slab of chocolate into pieces - and how she must leave the land again when she has taken a bite out of a faucet from which the chocolate gushes.
(Translated by Kenneth Tindall)

It was one day last week I suddenly went off
By a crack from my kitchen I was simply sent off.
I had broken in two a large block of chocolate
and was suddenly walking a street that´s called Choc Gate.

I pinched my own arm, but my suspicion was right
I had simply arrived in a glorius land of delight!
The initial impression was make-believe choc
But a bite I then took from the nearest house block.

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Translated by Glyn Jones