One morning Grandpa comes over and makes pancakes for the kids. If you haven’t read this before, I’ll give you a quick synopsis.

Apparently a movie of this book was released a few years ago…I’m just going to pretend that never happened and keep my memories preserved in the print version. I’m not sure if he will obsess over it the way I did, but he definitely loves it. I brought it home from the library for my own kid this week. My Grandpa bought me this book when I was a kid and I was fascinated with it on so many levels. It makes me a little hungry too.Ĭloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett illustrated by Ronald Barrett. This is a fun book and just writing the review makes me eager to go reread it to my son. Especially the pale faced kids eating their weight in cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. The pictures are forever emblazoned on my brain.

Pancakes the size of a city block! Scary! First the food is gross, overcooked, and bad. What a wonderful place it was! Spaghetti rains down for dinner, doughnuts roll in in the morning. The story revolves around a wacky grandfather (not too unlike my own) telling the kids the story of the land of Chewandswallow where food falls from the sky. I got this book from my grandfather when I was little and it instantly became a favorite. But nothing will touch the original book of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs with its sparingly colored pen-and-ink images of massive doughnuts and orange juice rain. (Full disclosure: I’ve only seen the second one.) And from what I saw of it, it wasn’t that bad. Seuss books: The Lorax Cat in the Hat How the Grinch Stole Christmas. There is the unlikely adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. And we got not one, but two Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs movies. There are a surprising number of picture books that have been adapted into movies, with varying levels of success. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi and Ron Barrett.

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