Emma's Chocolate Shop

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Emmas SchokoLaden is a children's book by the Swiss author Stephan Sigg . The book was published in 2006 by MVG Medienproduktion und Vertriebsgesellschaft . There are three sequels: Emma's Easter Adventure , Emma's Christmas Present and Emma's Fair Fashion Show . The author received the prix eco.swisscanto sustainability award for his Emma series in 2014.

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Emma runs a small chocolate shop. Suddenly she disappears - to the chagrin of her niece Natascha, who had an appointment with her in the chocolate shop. She leaves a letter asking her sister Cornelia, Natasha's mother, to take care of the business while she is away. She does not reveal anything about the purpose of her trip.

The next day, the seedy chocolate dealer Otilo turns up in the chocolate shop. His company Chocolato is a large, cheap chocolate supplier, from whom Emma has previously bought her chocolates. He looks for Emma and leaves his business card with Cornelia in the chocolate shop. A video message tells the family that Emma has flown to South America. There she investigates the origin of her chocolate and the company of Mr. Otilo.

Since the stocks of chocolate are slowly running out and they urgently need replenishment, Cornelia visits Mr Otilo together with Natascha in his villa on the outskirts. But Natascha doesn't trust him on the way. To find evidence of his criminal activities, Natascha sneaks through the house and discovers the domestic servant Amalia. She is illegally employed by Mr. Otilo and is treated badly by him. Natascha offers her help, but Amalia is scared and wants to stay with Mr. Otilo for the time being.

Then Emma returns from South America. There she found out about the living and working conditions of the plantation workers and is shocked by the poor conditions. She decides to only offer fair trade chocolate in her chocolate in the future. Natascha finally frees Amalia from Mr. Otilo's house together with her friend Hina.

At the end there will be a big opening ceremony for the chocolate shop, which will now only sell fair trade chocolate.

Acting persons

  • Emma is the chaotic owner of a chocolate shop, socially committed, always full of action.
  • Natascha is Emma's niece. She likes to play hobby detective and is always ready to help her aunt.
  • Hina is Natascha's best friend.
  • Cornelia , Emma's sister, takes over the chocolate business at short notice after Emma spontaneously flew to South America.
  • Yannick , brother of Natascha.
  • Amalia , who came to Germany from Peru as Mr Otilo's housemaid, fled his household with the help of Natascha.
  • Mr. Otilo , villain of the Emma series and owner of the Chocolato company. He is always looking for a profit for his cheap chocolate company. Aunt Emma and her little shop are a thorn in his side and he never misses an opportunity to harm her in any way

Further information

The book was published in cooperation with the seal organization Transfair / Fairtrade Germany . It contains background information and teaching ideas on the subject of fair trade in school lessons. The suggestions are suitable for grades 4-6, for children from 9 years of age.

More practical teaching ideas for Emma's SchokoLaden for primary school and secondary level I can be found published by the project "One World in School" / Primary School Association (Issue One World in School , June 2008 edition).

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The complete Emma series was published by MVG Medienproduktion & Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH. Emma's SchokoLaden , ISBN 978-3-88916-264-9 , was first published on September 1, 2006. Further editions appeared in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The 5th updated edition appeared in 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2014 award winners on eco.ch
  2. ^ Entry in the German National Library