Central Kansas Library System

The Cat, along with Nick and Sally, help make chocolate at Princess Lotta-Chocka's Coco-a-licious, and it's the best chocolate ever!

"Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolade is raking in the booty and selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats and ships faster than you can say "Shiver me timbers." Caught up in the spirit of the seven seas, Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband, Joe, take their boat out on Lake Michigan and are stunned when a mischievous...

Where the wild things are: Max has an active imagination and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Max throws a tantrum and runs away from home when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world is inhabited by large wild beasts, including Carol who has the same temperament as Max. Instead...

"It was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Pennsylvania town of Hershey-home of the world-famous Hershey Chocolate Factory! Christina, Grant, Mimi and Papa visit the Sweetest Place on Earth one cold February week to do research for Mimi's new mystery book. The kids and their new friends, Annabelle and Sean, quickly become involved in a curious mystery that involves stolen silver dollars... Learn about Milton Hershey, once child candymaker...

Discover the magical land of Foodtopia by award-winning author Marc Remus. With over 150 drawings by the author, this children's book is not only a visual delight but also explores critical issues like weight loss, nutrition, and friendship. Follow the Chocolate Clouds and you will find magic ... Everybody in Sugarland is overweight because there's no food other than sweets. For decades, delicious Chocolate Clouds soared above Choco-Locoville,...

Chocolate shop owner Lee McKinney Woodyard investigates the murder of a retiring member of the library board at a board meeting where all in attendance are suspect.

"Hershey's milk chocolate is the quintessential American chocolate bar. But in Milton Hershey's time, chocolate was mostly a special treat for the very wealthy. Milton grew up poor and was no stranger to going hungry. When he got a job washing dishes in an ice cream parlor, he realized how happy sweets made people--and how much he liked making people happy. Over the course of his career, Hershey failed to make many businesses profitable, yet ultimately...

Princess Mini takes the chocolates she has made to her friend, Gobo the troll, and he takes her on an exciting, dangerous, and messy boat ride down the Chocolate River--and she encourages him to enter the beginners race at the Chocolate River Run.

"From the bestselling author of The Chocolate Clown Corpse, it's murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder where the motives aren't so black and white. The Warner Pier tourism board is kicking off its Tough Guys and Private Eyes film festival with The Maltese Falcon, and Lee Woodyard and her Aunt Nettie are preparing a delicious chocolate noir tie-in at TenHuis Chocolade. What Lee isn't prepared...