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I think I must have lived underneath a rock as a kid because at 33 years old, I’m just learning about the book, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”. I sat here and thought about every book I must have read as a kid that were written by Stephen King, John Carpenter, Jackie Collins and Danielle Steele.
Yes,I know what you’re probably thinking. What parent in their right mind would let a child read those books? Well, my parents really didn’t care what I was reading, just as long as I was reading something, but some Judy Blume books were thrown in for good measure. As you can see, I truly wasn’t the kid who was into reading too many children books. Well, lo and behold, I’m an adult who has fallen in love with, “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs”. I have officially reclaimed my childhood!
The first person I consulted with when I heard about the book, was my 10 year old son. He thought it was funny that I had never read it, considering he read it when he was in the 2ndgrade. He basically gave me the ‘Where have you been?’ look. He was all too excited to explain to me the story line, and we even took a trip together to the local bookstore to buy me my own copy, because he said he didn’t want me to bend the pages in his (he uses bookmarks, I don’t).
If you’re like myself, and not familiar with “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs”, by Judi Barett and illustratedby Ron Barett, in the town of Chewandswallow, food comes with the weather. "Everything that everyone ate came from the sky." When it rains, it pours, but in Chewsandswallow, the rain is in the form of soup and juice. Their thunderstorms are hamburgers. The people who live in the town are always prepared for the next piece of weather, whether it’s pie or chicken, with plates and cutlery. Who needs an umbrella, when you have a feast in front of you? One day the weather turns bad, and a giant flapjack closes down the school. Also, there are "fifteen-inch drifts of cream cheese and jelly sandwiches." Because of these ‘weather’ threats, the people must move and learn about the not-so-common practice of using stores.
The illustrations are so well drawn and full of detail, there is always something new to see. My favorite drawing is the two page spread in the middle of the book, which depicts the town under destruction of monstrous food, gargantuan pizza, two-story pickles, and doughnuts the size of cars.
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