Title: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Author: Judi Barrett
Illustrator: Ron Barrett
Age group: 4-8 y/o
Awards: New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, 1980 Colorado Children's Book Award
Genre: Fantasy and Sci-Fi
Summary
The book by Judi Barrett Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is a story in which the grandfather of two children tells them a story after an incident happened at breakfast. In the morning when they were getting ready to eat pancakes, a pancake fell on Henry one of the children. After that incident the grandpa told them a tall-tale. The tall-tale was about how there was a town called chewandswallow, in which the weather consisted of food falling from the sky. The food would fall for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then all of a sudden, the food started to get really big, destroying houses and just making hard for people to be able to eat. Schools closed down, and buildings were being damaged. The only thing that the townspeople could do for their safety was to move. So they made boats out of stale bread by gluing them together with peanut butter and set sail. After being on sea for a week, they arrived at a village that welcomed them, and with the stale bread, they made houses out of them. In the end the children sleep and wake up in the morning to go sledding with their grandpa.
Evaluation
I would use the book in the classroom because it is a good book to get ones imagination flowing. It really made me think how it would be if we got our food from the sky. I also made a connection to the bible, when God gives his people mana from the sky and that is how he would feed them. The only difference is that the mana would spoil after one day, and in the book they had a sanitation department that would get rid of the food either by giving it to the fish in the sea, animals on the street and the rest was put back on earth to enrich the soil. The book can be read aloud and then have a discussion on what they think about food falling from the sky. The book can also be used to teach about the environment, such as recycling. The illustrations in the book are really detailed and looks like it is done in pen or pencil because there is a lot of cross-hatching which is a technique use in art.
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