Will pie really fall from the sky?

Yes, not only pies will fall from the sky, but also anything you want to eat, juice, peas, mashed potatoes, burgers, sausages, poached eggs, butter, jam, toast, all kinds of delicacies.

A story about delicious food falling from the sky - "Sometimes Meatballs Rain on Cloudy Days", [American] written by Judy Barrett, [American] illustrated by Ron Barrett, translated by Li Yun, published by Xinxing Publishing House in 2014.

There is a small town called "Ba Chi Bar Chi". It is no different from other small towns. The only thing that is different is its weather.

The "rain" here is soup and juice, the "snow" is mashed potatoes and peas, and sometimes there's a burger storm.

There are no shops selling food here, and residents get their food from the sky.

People eat whatever comes from the sky.

The life of the residents of the small town was full of delicious food, until one day, the weather turned bad. Bread storm, pancake hurricane, maple syrup rainstorm, salt and pepper dust storm, tomato tornado followed one after another, and people fled the town one after another... This is a story within a story.

story.

There is a small "introduction" at the beginning of the book, which tells the "pancake incident" at breakfast in the first person (when the grandfather turned the pancake over, the pancake flew out and landed on the boy's head).

Inspired by this incident, my grandpa told the story of this "Ba Chi Ba Chi" town that night.

The end of the story echoes the beginning. Grandpa finished telling the story, the children went to bed, and went sledding with Grandpa the next day.

In fact, I have always been a little confused. The interesting things that happened in this small town can become a story on its own.

"On the other side of the sea, after climbing over many high and low mountains, passing through three hot deserts, and then crossing a not-so-big sea, we arrived at a small town called 'Ba Chi Ba Chi'" Such a story

The beginning is not abrupt.

"No one dares to go back to Bajibaji town to see what's going on there. They are too scared." The ending of this story is considered complete.

Children's books written for children can themselves be wild and absurd.

Wouldn't it make this whimsical story more perfect if we abandon the storytelling mode in the story?

The drawings in this book are also not pleasing to the eye. There are dense lines everywhere, especially the beginning of the book, which is all black and white lines. This will make people with trypophobia very tangled.

The images in the book are not very cute. Many characters have round eyes and look fierce.

Moreover, the arrangement of text and pictures is also very rigid. A picture that is originally quite complete has to be cut out and arranged with text with background color. Is this the author's intention?

Despite all these doubts and confusions, because the children loved it so much, we read the story over and over again.

Poached eggs hanging on the tree, tempting large jelly, bread with sausages, these delicacies falling from the sky made the child a little fanciful. She looked forward to shredded potatoes, fried noodles and her favorite two-color ice cream falling from the sky.

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There are many details in the book that can be explored, such as the old woman whose dentures fell out, the various people swept up by the tomato tornado, the huge donuts and French fries, and so on.

After reading this book many times, the children's enthusiasm finally waned and they no longer thought about such wonderful things as pie in the sky.

But a few days later, a child said something that completely changed my view on this book.

"Mom, can you also tell me a magical story, just like the little town that grandpa told about Bajibaji?" came out the child who turned off the lights and lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

This sentence suddenly made me realize the value of this book. In addition to the exaggerated imagination and interesting creativity that people talk about, this book contains a kind of sentiment. The grandfather who can tell stories is so

He is so amiable, so humorous, and has such a subtle influence on the children.

And when the night was quiet and the snoring started, I looked at this book again, and suddenly found that when you take off your glasses and no longer stare directly at this book at close range, those lines, those densely arranged lines are derived from

What comes out is a picture full of details, and the cut-out text boxes have an eye-catching and prominent effect.

When all the doubts disappeared, there was a sudden feeling of burying the hatchet with an old friend, shaking hands and making peace.

It's just that this old friend is a book.