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Super Spaghetti
A laugh-out-loud funny picture book about an unexpected superhero for fans of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs filled with humor and fun and lots of spaghetti!
Meet Fred, a boy who loves spaghetti. Fred's mom is an inventor, and when she builds a machine that can turn anything into spaghetti, Fred thinks life will be nothing but noodles from here on out. But when Fred himself accidentally ends up in the amazing spaghetti-making machine, Fred finds himself transformed. He becomes Super Spaghetti! (A superhero made entirely of spaghetti.) Is this spaghetti-crazy-boy-turned-superhero made of the right stuff to save his town?
With fun comics-style action, this is a superhero story that will have readers laughing and cheering for Super Spaghetti! Rebecca Donnelly's funny read-aloud text and Bonnie Lui's bright, action-packed art make this an irresistible story!
Meet Fred, a boy who loves spaghetti. Fred's mom is an inventor, and when she builds a machine that can turn anything into spaghetti, Fred thinks life will be nothing but noodles from here on out. But when Fred himself accidentally ends up in the amazing spaghetti-making machine, Fred finds himself transformed. He becomes Super Spaghetti! (A superhero made entirely of spaghetti.) Is this spaghetti-crazy-boy-turned-superhero made of the right stuff to save his town?
With fun comics-style action, this is a superhero story that will have readers laughing and cheering for Super Spaghetti! Rebecca Donnelly's funny read-aloud text and Bonnie Lui's bright, action-packed art make this an irresistible story!
32 pages, Hardcover
Published January 4, 2022
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January 27, 2022
Cute, silly story. I wish the text flowed a bit more-it almost seemed like two different books out together. And did the cat go into the spaghetti machine? A fun idea for a superhero prompt activity, but not one I’d reach for often for storytime.
September 29, 2022
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I, for one, could eat spaghetti 24-7, so when I saw this title, I knew I had to read it. Is it really wonderful to be a super hero? Is being the fastest the best? I liked the idea of the super hero, Super Spaghetti and how he helped others. I laughed when his mother, the inventor, created the Spaghetti-Tronic Electro-Spaghetti Zapper as I know that kids will love that machine’s name as it sounds remarkable and powerful. Fred discovers that being Super Spaghetti is great at first but later he beings to realize that being a super hero isn’t all the terrific. Did his mother put a reverse button on this amazing machine?
Fred loves spaghetti but cooking it takes forever so his mother, an inventor, invents a machine that cooks spaghetti super-fast. The Spaghetti-Tronic Electro-Spaghetti Zapper complete with flashing lights, loud noises can give Fred a plate of spaghetti in ten seconds. Now, that’s amazing! Forgetting to shut the machine off, Fred returns home from a walk and as strange noises come from the machine, somehow Fred becomes Super Spaghetti. How he becomes this super hero, I just do not know. I feel that his attitude starts changing as now, he begins to care about others and he starts to help them. Where once he walked past the poor cat stuck in the tree, now Super Spaghetti is helping that same kitty. It’s interesting how others start to see this new super hero. Here is a person wrapped up in spaghetti trying to help others and they’re saying: “It’s a superhero!” “It’s a monster!” “It’s spaghetti!” Everyone has their own perspective of him as he tries to do good. Super Spaghetti is put to the test when he hears a loud BOOM!! Will he answer the call or try to find a reverse button on the invention and go back to being Fred?
The illustrations in this book are fantastic as they’re bright and they fill up the page. I like how some of the pages are constructed like a graphic novel with boxes to section off different scenes without devoting a whole page to each scene. The use of text bubbles gives the characters personality and the using of a variety of fonts and the varying of their sizes, make this book a fun book to read. There were a few instances in the storyline that I couldn’t follow but otherwise, it’s an entertaining story. 3.5 stars
I, for one, could eat spaghetti 24-7, so when I saw this title, I knew I had to read it. Is it really wonderful to be a super hero? Is being the fastest the best? I liked the idea of the super hero, Super Spaghetti and how he helped others. I laughed when his mother, the inventor, created the Spaghetti-Tronic Electro-Spaghetti Zapper as I know that kids will love that machine’s name as it sounds remarkable and powerful. Fred discovers that being Super Spaghetti is great at first but later he beings to realize that being a super hero isn’t all the terrific. Did his mother put a reverse button on this amazing machine?
Fred loves spaghetti but cooking it takes forever so his mother, an inventor, invents a machine that cooks spaghetti super-fast. The Spaghetti-Tronic Electro-Spaghetti Zapper complete with flashing lights, loud noises can give Fred a plate of spaghetti in ten seconds. Now, that’s amazing! Forgetting to shut the machine off, Fred returns home from a walk and as strange noises come from the machine, somehow Fred becomes Super Spaghetti. How he becomes this super hero, I just do not know. I feel that his attitude starts changing as now, he begins to care about others and he starts to help them. Where once he walked past the poor cat stuck in the tree, now Super Spaghetti is helping that same kitty. It’s interesting how others start to see this new super hero. Here is a person wrapped up in spaghetti trying to help others and they’re saying: “It’s a superhero!” “It’s a monster!” “It’s spaghetti!” Everyone has their own perspective of him as he tries to do good. Super Spaghetti is put to the test when he hears a loud BOOM!! Will he answer the call or try to find a reverse button on the invention and go back to being Fred?
The illustrations in this book are fantastic as they’re bright and they fill up the page. I like how some of the pages are constructed like a graphic novel with boxes to section off different scenes without devoting a whole page to each scene. The use of text bubbles gives the characters personality and the using of a variety of fonts and the varying of their sizes, make this book a fun book to read. There were a few instances in the storyline that I couldn’t follow but otherwise, it’s an entertaining story. 3.5 stars
March 11, 2022
Bizarre.
March 12, 2022
I was really thinking this was going to be cute, but it was just disappointing. The illustrations themselves were cute though.
June 18, 2022
The art on the cover is so cute. I was hopeful for this book. But, it really just felt like a suuuuuuper random stream of consciousness. Not a fan.
June 21, 2021
I received an electronic ARC from MacMillan Children's Publishing Group.
Cute story about a young boy who loves spaghetti but doesn't like waiting for it to be ready. His mom is an inventor and invents the perfect spaghetti cooking machine. Unfortunately, he leaves it on and gets wrapped up in the spaghetti to become Super Spaghetti. He saves the world, or at least this portion of it, before returning to being Fred.
The illustrations capture the humor and the love. The story doesn't flow as smoothly as I would like but elementary level readers will appreciate the ridiculous concept and run with it.
Cute story about a young boy who loves spaghetti but doesn't like waiting for it to be ready. His mom is an inventor and invents the perfect spaghetti cooking machine. Unfortunately, he leaves it on and gets wrapped up in the spaghetti to become Super Spaghetti. He saves the world, or at least this portion of it, before returning to being Fred.
The illustrations capture the humor and the love. The story doesn't flow as smoothly as I would like but elementary level readers will appreciate the ridiculous concept and run with it.
December 29, 2023
Love the illustrations and inventing mom. Confused by some elements of the story (not obvious that he's getting sucked into the machine, what happened with the building). Would be too challenging for storytime for those reasons. Love the last two lines of the book and mom's smile. Sweet relationship between them.
March 23, 2022
The narrative was hard to follow. Fun illustrations though.
May 11, 2022
Read for spaghetti story time. Awesome illustrations and great idea but the story/writing kind of fell flat and felt clunky as a reader. Too bad. Kids seemed to like it.
June 26, 2022
It made us hungry for spaghetti. Unfortunately, the story was a bit too odd.
June 29, 2022
This was so dumb.
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October 5, 2022A wild ride where a boy who loves spaghetti gets his mom to invent a machine to make it faster and chaos ensues. Preschool and up
April 24, 2025
confusing, wouldn't work for storytime, but fun read.
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