How To Build A Chocolate Bridge Written by Roma Agrawal. Reviewed by Ben, Age 8

If it was only ‘how to build a chocolate bridge’ it would only be 3 pages long. But actually it has more than one thing to do.
The first thing we tried was a pyramid out of marshmallows and spaghetti. Then we used tropical sweets which worked better and we built a square tower. It’s fun to build them and even more fun to eat them afterwards!

Next time I build with spaghetti I am planning a square base and then have triangles on the sides. Then with the corners lined up with the corners of the bottom square I will add another square on the top. Then I will keep on doing this until it’s nice and high or the whole thing collapses because the marshmallows are too small. It was fun – we should do this more often (so I can eat sweets more often).

The second experiment was a gummy bear pool that worked – the gummy bear lining kept the water in the pool. Next we plan to make plastic out of milk after we have done the chocolate bridge. We went to the supermarket to get the supplies.
There are also facts about materials in the book. I learnt that they put steel rods in concrete to make it reinforced.

The instructions are easy to follow – there are words and pictures to show the steps. If you like ‘how to do it’ books you will like this. A younger child would need more help than I did.