Grace Lin: So those books, not a lot happens in them. Grace Lin: It's so funny because when you said that, because I was thinking, what book would I want to be in? And I don't know if you've ever read the Raggedy Ann and Andy books. But I would love to just explore and then just be in that world and say, "Okay, food start raining. I don't know if I'd want to live in that book, because I don't know if I'd want to be in one book for too long. Riley I think his name was, would sometimes tell me that I couldn't check it out because I needed to give other kids a chance. So once we got into the library, we would all run straight for that shelf and pull out the book and our librarian, Mr. And I remember being in elementary school and that was the one book that all the kids wanted to check out. And then all of the pictures of just the food coming down from the sky. Mae Respicio: Do you remember the illustrations, though? I just remember there was one page where it had the town, maybe the downtown with the buildings and it had the names of the buildings.
One day it's rains orange juice and the restaurants have no roofs, so people just sit and wait for the food to fall on their plates and things like that. It just magically rains all these different kinds of foods.
And if I'm remembering right, it was all about a town where the only thing that they had to eat were sardines until somebody invented a machine that made food rain from the sky. They were so detailed, these really intricate line drawings. I can remember the illustrations so clearly. And it's written, it looks like it was written and illustrated by Judy Barrett. Mae Respicio: And the book that kid Mae would have want to have lived in was one of my favorite picture books growing up was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Georgia: What book do you wish you could live in? And I'm actually going to just quickly look it up, because I want to get the author-illustrator's name right. I didn't know what the question was going to be. Mae Respicio: Oh, Georgia, I love that question. Today's question is from a young person named Georgia, and they ask, "What book do you wish you could live in?" Grace Lin: Are you ready for today's question? Today I am here with Mae Respicio, author of The House That Lou Built, Any Day With You and How To Win A Slime War, which will come out in 2021. Grace Lin: Hello, I'm Grace Lin, children's book author and illustrator of many books, including the middle grade novel When The Sea Turned To Silver, and the picture book, A Big Mooncake for Little Star. Welcome back to another great episode of Kids Ask Authors! Grace Lin and Mae Respicio answer this wonderful kid question.
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