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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Review
My son (now 5) and daughter (7) and I have always loved this book. The book is very different from the movie of the same name, though we love the movie as well. The book is the charming story as told by Grandpa of the tiny town of Chewandswalla (I may not be spelling that right) where all the food people eat comes from the sky. The story is inspired by Grandpa’s accidental flipping of a pancake on the head of one of his grandchildren (Henry) and is introduced as “the best tall tale bedtime story” he ever told. Things are wonderful, err, delicious until the food starts getting too big with somewhat predictable consequences. I think our favorite is either the giant pancake that closed the school or perhaps the “tomato tornado” with an illustration that looks like it was lifted from The Wizard of Oz.
The illustrations are excellent with an amazing amount of detail which is clearly intended to amuse the adults reading this book. The prose is somewhat lyrical and fun to read. Other reviewers have pointed out that kids won’t get the weather jokes in this book and that is certainly true – but with the almost rhyming quality of the text and fun illustrations it really doesn’t matter in that the kids love it anyway.
This is definitely one of our favorites, along with others such as The Relatives Came and The Hello Goodbye Window.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Overview
If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn’t it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you’d have no choice. What if you didn’t like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?
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