The Popcorn Book

Ahhh, Fall is in the air!

This is my favorite time of year. So nostalgic and melancholy. Pumpkin spice candles and toffee nut lattes. Fall festivals and pumpkin patches. High school football games on Friday nights. Lazy, gray Sunday afternoons, with my husband watching football and me curled up next to him reading a book.

I remembered this book from my childhood and wondered if anyone else had this as a kid. I'm going to order it off the internet - this is the perfect time of year for it. I think the original is out of print but they make mini-paperback version. The original sells on Amazon for as much as $186.00!

Here's the storyline. Sam the bear's parents left him alone on Halloween night to go to a party so he decides to throw a costume party of his own. All of his guests happen to bring the same thing: popcorn. They decide to pop all of the popcorn in one big black kettle, and then the entire house is filled with popcorn. The bears start eating up all the popcorn in order to clean up. Later that night after everyone has gone home, Sam's parents return with a gift for him: you guessed it, popcorn! As a child I thought this was absolutely hysterical.

I really wish that my mom could find our old copy, assuming it wasn't sold in a garage sale or lost in one of the moves. I call dibs on it. And I won't sell it on Amazon.