![]() ![]() I have eaten a lot of chocolate in my life, but nothing has ever been as delicious as I know a Willy Wonka’s Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight would be. These are some of my favourite food scenes in children’s literature. I went to the Amazon myself to research the book, and ate the piranha, and caught a tarantula…but I was not allowed to eat it. They eat pancakes made from cocoa grubs they catch piranha, and eat roasted tarantulas. ![]() My new book, The Explorer, is about four children trying to survive after a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, until they discover a map, and a secret. The only difficulty is that writing about food makes me hungry, and I find myself getting up from my desk to go foraging in the kitchen. I love trying to conjure hunger in my readers, and I think food can anchor the maddest story in reality. My favourite thing to write about in a novel is food. ![]()
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