Author: Dhruva Nalla | Genre: Children’s Fiction | Pages: 24
About Book
Set in a future period, Chocolate Planet is a short sci-fi story about brother and sister going on a trip to the chocolate planet and what challenges they face to return to their planet.
Author, Dhruva Nalla feels that the story may have sci-fiction elements, but the main characters in the story are closest to him and his sister. One fine day, the author got an what if a brother and sister go on a trip to the chocolate planet to eat chocolate? And that is how this funny and innocent children’s story took shape.
The Review
Starting on a very cute note, we have Dhruva and Pragi, who are two naughty but tight-knit siblings. We see them looking out into the sky and Pragi voices her wish of going off to a brown planet far-off in the sky which the siblings call ‘chocolate planet’. In her cute, innocent, and childish way, Pragi gets Dhruva, her elder brother’ to fulfil her dream. Their father is working on a spacecraft which Dhruva has his eye on. He learns how to operate the spaceship with the sole purpose of taking his sister out for the promised adventure to Chocolate Planet. One fine day, under the pretext of going off to school, the kids sneak up in to the spaceship and off they go to the Chocolate planet where they encounter pleasant and not-so-pleasant surprises before getting stuck on the planet for good.
‘Chocolate Planet’ reminds you of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in a lot of ways but it is nowhere close to it. A childish dream that kids harbor and put efforts together to came it come true. This book is an easy read and much exciting for kids as it has the elements to keep kids engaged. It is a fun fantasy read that packs in adventure, risks, joy, courage, mischief,sci-fi, thrill, imagination – all that would keep a child glued to the page. The writing also is very simple and easy to grasp and with fun childish lingo, kids will truly enjoying reading this book.
At merely 24 pages, this is a quick sell-out in Children’s fiction arena and makes for a good gift, also a fantastic book to get kids to read and instill a reading habit in them. Dhruva and Pragi are characteristic of contemporary kids who are passionate about fantasies, adamant about their likes and dislikes, bold and courageous enough to risk, and quick at making impulse decisions. Their parents are also totally relatable as adults with sound understanding of positive parenting. Overall, with limited characters and an engaging storyline, the book is a lovely read for kids of any age-group.
Read ‘Chocolate Planet’ to your kids as their bed-time story and watch their own imagination get ignited!
About the Author
Dhruva has done his master’s at the University of Texas, Arlington, U.S.A, and currently, he is working at Tech Mahindra. From his childhood, he was intrigued by epic stories like Mahabharata and Ramayana. So he loved the idea of creating a story of his, and that feeling was strengthened when he was doing his bachelor’s in RMK engineering college. He still remembers the 200-page blue book, which was filled with his short stories. Writing and editing those short stories gave him confidence that he could write a book. And whenever he writes, there is a smile on his face. He can’t express the happiness that he feels when he looks at the work he created.
P.S.: I received a review copy from the author, but the review remains unbiased.
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