Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (& a Chance to Pray)

I must say I was suprised when I heard the children's book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett was being made into a movie. Pleasantly suprised! I read this book to my students every year when I taught school. I had several objectives in reading it. First and foremost, it really got kid's imaginations to run wild! They loved the idea of food falling form the sky. I typically gave them a writing assignment where they would create a town like "Chewandswallow" where other things b...