Early Reader Review: It's Raining Tacos by Terry Gripp

Source: From the publicist in exchange for an honest review. This in no way alters my opinion or review.

It's Raining Tacos by Terry Gripp 

Illustrated by Peter Emmerich
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date:  June 22, 2021

 

Format: Ebook

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

A silly, fun tale in the vein of Mo Willems and Sandra Boynton, based on the kid-favorite, smash hit YouTube song "Raining Tacos," by Parry Gripp

It's raining tacos, from out of the sky.

Tacos, no need to ask why.

Just open your mouth and close your eyes.

It's raining tacos!

Taco-bout irresistible! Jam out to the catchy, toe-tapping tune “Raining Tacos” from YouTube sensation Parry Gripp, featuring everyone’s favorite treat!

This spec-taco-ular, goofy song, with new, never-before-sung lyrics, is perfect for sharing, so grab a few friends—young or old—and get ready to crunch your way to a good time!

Wildly fun and full of laugh-out-loud antics, this interactive sing-along is a zany romp sure to capture fans of Giraffes Can’t Dance and Dragons Love Tacos. Shell we dance? 

Before getting to the review... I wanted to share the Youtube song the synopsis mentions... in case you are interested... 😁

Review:

I did not realize this book was based on a YouTube song, even though it was attached to the email for the book form the publicist (whoops). So this review is kind of a before and after reaction having seen it.

Before I knew this was a song, it was a bit weird. The story is about a young boy having a birthday party and he is so excited about his party and eating pizza at his party... and then something goes wrong and they can't have the pizza. That is when it starts raining tacos. Not very realistic, which is perfectly fine, but it seems so normal in the beginning that the raining tacos is a bit odd. It also has a  rhyme scheme that at some points worked well and at others seemed to be broken and not follow it.

Knowing the song now, it makes a bit more sense, that there is a rhyme built in for the song/ singing part, but if you don't know about the song that it just feels off and weird. 

All that said, I am a lover of tacos... and birthdays ... and pizza and cake. So that is a big win from me. It was also illustrated in a a fun way with bright colors and bold shapes which were nice to look at and follow the story. It is very silly but also a good chance to teach young kids about adapting and changing if things go wrong, granted it isn't going to magically rain tacos to solve the problem but it is fun to think about.