Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

by judi barrett, Ron Barrett (illustrator)

          

This is such a fun book to read, it is about a place called chewandswallow. This place has a variety of different weathers, it switches up between meals. Instead of snow mashed potatoes comes down and juice comes down as rain. It starts to get bad when the food becomes too big. Large pancakes falls hard from the sky. The thing that did the most damage was the huge meatballs. I recommend this book to all age groups. It has humor in it and the book has a lot of imagination and creativity.   

The boy of the three year nap

      

   Author: Robert D. San Souci, Brian Pinkney

This is one of my favorite multicultural culture books it is about a Japanese boy who loves to sleep. Everyone in town made jokes about how lazy he is and how worthless he has become.  His mother works very hard to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. But she could not handle it by herself anymore it was very hard being a widow. She begged her son to get a job so he can help around the house but he would not.  He then falls in love with a girl who comes from a wealthy family. This is when he comes up with a plot so he can be rich too. He tricks her father into marrying his daughter, giving him money and also providing him with a job. The illustration is beautiful and very detailed I would recommend this book to all teachers and parents.