Tag Archives: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

A good year for books-to-movies

Posted on 15 December 2009 by Eliza, Associate Editor

The 2010 Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, and I was happy to see that many of the picks were based on books. Here are the highlights: Up in the Air, based on Walter Kirn’s 2001 novel, led the … Continue reading →

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Bedtime stories on the big screen

Posted on 15 October 2009 by Eliza, Associate Editor

At BookPage, we have been struck by the number of high-profile movie adaptations of beloved children’s picture books. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Where the Wild Things Are immediately come to mind, but there are others, too: The … Continue reading →

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Cloudy with a chance of popcorn

Posted on 27 August 2009 by BookPage

As a child growing up in the early 1980s, I loved the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and its goofy—but oddly realistic—illustrations of such meteorological events as the floods of orange juice and storms of hamburgers that … Continue reading →

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