What if we got our food from the sky? I’m not talking the rain that feeds the crops, I’m talking bowls of spaghetti and meatballs with loaves of garlic bread literally falling from the sky. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs tells this exact tale.
That pancake was so enormous in size and massive in weight there was no way to remove it so they had to close school. The people of ChewandSwallow have to make a decision to survive. They make boats from giant stale peanut butter sandwiches and set sail for new land. When they arrived in their new land they had a new life to learn. Food now had to be purchased in stores not caught on plates. This was a very new idea but they knew this had to be the way since no one wanted to go back to ChewandSwallow because they were too scared.
This is an entertaining book for preschoolers through adults. The illustrations by Rin Barrett are vivid and dramatic and the story-telling by Judi Barrett is captivating. This is a favorite in our house.
Sony Pictures is releasing an animated film loosely based on the book this fall. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be based on an inventor that discovers a way to make food fall from the sky. The city looks more like New York City not a small town of ChewandSwallow. It’s something we’d definitely see but know to expect some difference in the story.
