The book begins with an innocent flip of a pancake that doesn't land where it was supposed to, which tips of grandpa's imagination during the bedtimes story of a place called Chewandswallow where no one has to make or buy food because it comes down from the sky. The weather gets worse and worse with larger food items raining down from the sky. The people of Chewandswallow must desert their land and find a new place to live where they have to shop at grocery stores like normal people. The imagination in thinking of this story is incredible. I think this partly because I am not an imaginative person.
When the movie was made I think they used the premise of food coming down from the sky, but not much else from the original story. We did all kinds of activities with the book before we took the entire second and third grade teams from school to see the movie in 3-D, which was about 225 students. We were all excited to see the movie and were ready to see how they differed from one another. I understand that characters and plot have to be expanded upon in order to turn a picture book into a feature-length film, but did they have to rid of grandpa telling the story? The movie took on a sort of science-fiction feel as Flint turned water into food particles. He was a likable character, and everyone could relate to him wanting to have a great invention. He was also heroic in trying to blow up the machine so everyone would be safe in the town of Swallow Falls. The movie was definitely entertaining, but I would choose the book over the movie.
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