On Top of Spaghetti

On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson is a book written about a chef who needs to create the best meatball in town in order to keep his restaurant in business. Once he has created his masterpiece someone sneezes and the meatball goes flying. The man must now chase his meatball all over town so he can get it back and actually taste it. The chef finally gets the meatball slowed down so he can grab it when...SNEEZE!!! It flies away again and lands SPLAT! on the ground. The meatball is now nothing but mush. What will the chef do now to keep his restaurant from closing down?
    I loved this book. I really liked the song this book was based on and is in the book. This would be a great interactive book for teachers to read with their students. Not a lot of books incorporate singing into them and this is why I really liked this book. The characters in this book are animals so either gender will enjoy reading this book.
     I would use this book as an interactive book with my students. I would read them the text and the parts that are part of the song we would sing together. If my students were a little rowdy one day I would read this book to them so they could get their wiggles out through singing. The words in this book are kind of difficult so teachers may need to read this book to their emergent readers. Students who are more advanced will be able to read this story on their own. This would be a good book to teach a vocabulary lesson with descriptive words or synonyms.