Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Sometimes we just want a silly book to make us giggle. It is one of the best things about books. You can toss reality out the window and indulge in some hilarious fun. So when we’re in need of silly giggles I pull Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barret
Could you imagine living in a world where it rained meatballs? Or where it snowed mashed potatos? It is almost too weird to imagine! But that is half the fun, getting to imagine the truly odd for a while. Where else are you going to get to eat what the weather brings in? The artwork is colorful and funny, it blnds in perfectly with the feel of the story. Even when the weather gets bad the illustrations keep it lively. Sure being squashed by a giant pancake is no laughing matter, but how could you not giggle just a little?
That is why Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, books, children’s books
November 17th, 2007 at 6:48 am
That sounds like a good book! I have to read horse books here for the younger 2. nothing funny, but it helps the good and bad days. I’m hoping to get the complete series before to long. It’s called the Billy Blaze series.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:03 am
This is one of pour all time favorites. The illustrations got me drawing when I was a child and I would spend all day pouring over them. It has the same affect on my kids.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:46 am
This is one of my favorites from teaching that I have forgotten to add to our home library - bad mommy
Thanks for the reminder!
November 17th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
We love that book. Somehow it never gets old.
When my youngest was shorter, he loved *I’m A Little Mouse* by Noelle & David Carter. It’s not really a funny book, but he would crack up. (Might have had something to do with his insane mother and her animal voices.)
November 17th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
This is a great one, and so is the sequel, Pickles to Pittsburgh. But our hands down family favorite is Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, by Eugene Trivizas, with illustrations by the incomparable Helen Oxenbury. I will have to do a post on this book.
November 18th, 2007 at 4:41 am
This is indeed a very nice book
November 18th, 2007 at 9:47 am
My boys (age 6 and 4) love this book too! Another book that sends them into fits is “I Stink” by Kate McMullen. Being typical boys, they love it when the garbage truck goes through his alphabet recipe of trash - and talk about icky stuff like dog poo and dirty diapers!!
November 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I cannot think of a single funny book that our family loves to read. I guess we don’t often get in silly moods. Most books will actually get us smiling if read with the right funny voices for different characters though.