People would check the weather report like a menu. The book proceeds to outline in remarkable and remarkably clever detail the plight of a town where weather came three times a day in the form of food that would drop from the sky. This prompts the grandfather to tell them a bedtime story later on that evening about a mythical town of Chewandswallow - a place blessed with edible weather.

A dog chases a cat, disturbing the grandfather, who accidentally tosses a pancake on the head of the boy. The story is told from the perspective of two children (one boy and one girl) who are sitting down to a breakfast of pancakes being prepared by their grandfather. It's hard to quantify the book's popularity, but a good indicator of this is the fact that in its first ten years, the book had already gone through some 20 printings. The fact that the book has had that kind of longevity speaks to its overwhelming popularity. The book has scores of adult fans who have fond memories of having the book read to them as children. I say this having not had the benefit of having been introduced to the book at a time when I would've fit into its target demographic. How does a modern animated feature compare with a 30-year-old children's picture book?Īt 32 pages, the book is an exceedingly quick read. In 2006, the fledgling Sony Pictures Animation studio announced that it would begin working on a CGI animated feature film treatment of the beloved children's book. Judi has written dozens of children's books in addition to her work with Ron. Both had done extensive solo work: Ron had worked as an illustrator for the National Lampoon and as art director for ad agencies Young & Rubicam and Carl Ally.

The book was a great success and the couple subsequently worked together on other, lesser-known children's books like Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People and, most recently, a lesser-known sequel to Meatballs entitled Pickles to Pittsburgh. In 1978, husband and wife team Judi and Ron Barrett wrote a children's picture book entitled Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, an interesting story involving edible meteorological phenomena, natural disaster and recovery. This young upstart has quickly made a huge impact on society, rapidly becoming the most financially lucrative form of storytelling in the modern world.īoth square off in the ring again as Box Office Prophets presents another round of Book vs.

A 112-year-old kid born in France to a guy named Lumiere and raised primarily in Hollywood by his uncle Charlie 'the Tramp' Chaplin. From clay tablets to bound collections of wood pulp to units of stored data, the book has been around in one format or another for some 3,800 years.Īnd in this corner: the Movie. A collection of words that represent ideas when filtered through the lexical systems in a human brain. Movie: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs By Russ Bickerstaff September 22, 2009

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