When I think of my childhood, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is generally one of the first things that comes to mind.

Food is pretty important when you're a kid....and imagining a world where food fell from the sky, well, was just about the best thing you could think of. I wanted to live in the town of Chewandshallow so bad.

Pancakes were one of my favorite foods when I was a kid. There's a great illustration in the book of a large stack of pancakes, smothered in syrup, sitting on top of the school. The pancakes were so big that they had to close the school. I thought if I were there, I could help them eat those pancakes and re-open the school.

My mom recently found my copy of this book while going through some boxes at her house. She wrapped it up and gave it to me for my 26th birthday. What a neat gift.



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