Krysoe and The Chocolate Hills of the Philippines

The story

Krysoe is kind and generous, but when he doesn't get his way he can cry for a whole day. Sent outside for crying over raspberry syrup, he laughs at Annoya so hard that his tears turn into a river that carries him off.

He floats down the Enchanted River of the Philippines, where a big-eyed tarsier named Isko warns him about glowing spirits called Diwatas and the faraway Chocolate Hills.

The real place: Chocolate Hills

Three things to tell your kid after the story.

1. 1The Chocolate Hills are more than a thousand rounded hills on the island of Bohol in the Philippines.
2. 2They are covered in grass that turns brown in the dry season, so they look like chocolate drops.
3. 3Tarsiers, tiny animals with huge eyes, live on Bohol too. Each eye is about as big as their whole brain.

Next stop

EP 52 · Goop World

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EP 53 · Goop World

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