It was an easy choice on which book to revisit from my childhood. I found it going through things for the move and couldn't say no. For the first time in probably 20 years, I reread Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett.
Since it is a children's book, it's driven by the art as much as anything else. Ron Barrett did a great job including the title in a weather forecast on a TV.
There were eggs hanging from trees, a buck with food in its antlers, a roofless restaurant, and a birthday party ruined by brussel sprouts. As the weather takes a turn for the worst you see skies full of T-bone steak clouds, a man trapped under a hamburger, doughnuts rolling after people in the street, and a tomato tornado where someone is reading Gone with the Wind.
One of my favorite scenes was the sail boats of bread and cheese as people fled the town. You can see a storm of subs and, I think, meatballs or grapes behind them. It was hard to tell.
This is one story that will always hold up for me because it's so simple and silly. I recently discovered that it's part of a series so I'll definitely be including the other books on the list of things I'll have to get my future kids.
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