Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Judi Barrett

Book - 1978

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

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Subjects
Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : Atheneum 1978.
Language
English
Main Author
Judi Barrett (-)
Other Authors
Ron Barrett (-)
Physical Description
unpaged : ill
ISBN
9780689306471
9780881031317
9781442005068
9780689707490
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

A flying pancake at breakfast triggers Grandpa's bedtime story set in the far-off land of Chewanswallow, where the food comes out of the sky and ""whatever the weather served, that was what they ate."" Most of the book consists of nothing more than elaborations on this conceit, with running menu information decked out in weather report terminology, but Judi Barrett's examples are nutty enough so that kids won't tire of the gag--even though Ron Barrett's flippy pop cartoons are too literal to enlarge it. The plot thickens with the maple syrup, and at last the portions grow so large that the people are being bombarded and buried by food--and so they all sail off on peanut-butter sandwiches to a land where food is purchased at the supermarket. A dubious improvement perhaps, but Grandpa's imaginings are very close to a little kid's funny bone--which everyone knows is located somewhere along the intestinal tract. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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