Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

When a production team decides to make a movie from a children's book, it's mostly "loosely" based on that book.  Meaning?  They only took the idea of the book so the stories are going to be different.

That's what happened with this next book that you will more than likely recognize the name, but I'm shocked by how many people didn't know that it started out as a book.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett (1978)

 Great, GREAT book!  After reading, I can see why it was named one of the top 100 picture books of all time.  It's an original story, original idea......you will have the focus of all your children.

The story tells of a town called Chewandswallow.  All towns have all sorts of weather, but this town's is special.  Instead of rain and snow, they will have food fall from the sky.

The town never goes hungry and each citizen anticipates what new food will fall the next day.  But with each passing season, the food seems to be getting larger, and larger and larger.  So what is a town to do with food that keeps falling that's about 500 times larger than it normally is?

 The illustrations:  SO SPECTACULAR!  Each page is filled with detail.  And the colors.....I swoon!  I love how the illustrator stuck with just a few colors.

AWESOME!

The movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is completely different from this story.  There is no inventor in this book.  In fact, the main character in this story is a grandfather narrating this story to his kids about a town he had heard of.

There are two sequels to this book:  Pickles to Pittsburgh & Planet of the Pies

WHERE TO BUY:

Thriftbooks.com - $3.59 with .99 cent shipping.  If you order more than $10, you get free shipping which makes it cheaper than buying on Amazon

Amazon.com - Used is $0.01 with $3.99 shipping.  This will be the cheapest if you plan to buy this book alone.  Or you can purchase new for about $11.96 for hardcover or $6.00 for paperback.

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by: Judi Barrett $3.59