From lollipops and gumdrops to taffies and kisses, this delightful resource provides complete instructions and helpful advice for making delicious vintage homemade candies. Old-fashioned goodness is found in this collection of more than 100 recipes for making divinity, fudge, marzipan, fondant, caramels, taffy, and candied fruits. Also included are fun, traditional candy games like taffy pulling as well as tips for creating beautiful pulled sugar...

A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.

"It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life Is Sweet candy factory, Logan realizes something's very wrong. . . . When the Candymaker announces that they will be going on tour to introduce the new candy bar, the four friends see this as an opportunity to make things right. But with a...

When Layla the cotton candy fairy discovers that her charm is missing, Rachel and Kirsty are enlisted to help her retrieve it from a thieving Jack Frost.

Dash the Mint Fairy uncovers information about her past and family, learning that she might actually be a princess.

Archie is the brains of a society of thugs in sport coats called the Vigils. The Vigils have gained power over their fellow students and faculty by using intimidation. They meet their match in new student, Jerry Renault. Jerry refuses to participate in the school's annual fund-raising chocolate sale event. Brother Leon, the school's sadistic headmaster, makes a pact with the Vigils to sell 20,000 boxes of chocolates so he can be promoted to head of...

Growing up in a city where candy is illegal and sugar is scandalous, 12-year-old detective Nelle Faulker takes the case of a candy gangster's missing teddy bear before her client's own disappearance leads Nelle to a shady underworld of sweets smuggling, back-alley deals and storefront firebombs.

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns about the shortest president of the United States, and discovers candy companies will send him free samples if he writes letters to them.

Relates the story of the founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania, known for his hard work, perseverance, and charity on behalf of young people.

Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.