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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs #1)
If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
April 1st 1982
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
(first published 1978)
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We read to our children often when they were little, 20 some years ago. We picked this one up by chance, and I have to say, from the moment we first opened the pages it has stuck with not just me, but them as well.
What a fabulously creative book, one that opened little imaginations wide. Wonderful prose, and illustrations that took that imagination for a ride.
We later watched the movie together as this was *the* favorite book in our house. It was fairly disappointing. Do yourself and your chil...more
What a fabulously creative book, one that opened little imaginations wide. Wonderful prose, and illustrations that took that imagination for a ride.
We later watched the movie together as this was *the* favorite book in our house. It was fairly disappointing. Do yourself and your chil...more
Mother nature cooks up a storm, literally, in this madcap story with plenty of silliness to go around.
Ages 4-10
The town of Chewandswallow has some wild weather, bringing meals like burgers, spaghetti, mashed potatoes, and of course meatballs three times a day. Then, things start to go crazy and odd things start happening, like an entire day of just gargonzola cheese and eventually a "tomato tornado" and the poor sanitation department could no longer keep up. This book uses such fun language to d...more
Ages 4-10
The town of Chewandswallow has some wild weather, bringing meals like burgers, spaghetti, mashed potatoes, and of course meatballs three times a day. Then, things start to go crazy and odd things start happening, like an entire day of just gargonzola cheese and eventually a "tomato tornado" and the poor sanitation department could no longer keep up. This book uses such fun language to d...more
Nov 02, 2007
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OK, this was really my favorite book for most of my childhood. I would pretend to read it before I could actually read (I had simply memorized it from hearing it so many times) and I remember feeling sooo guilty about all the praise I got for being such a good reader at such an early age. Man alive! Really, I think my love for this book stemmed from the fact that I was a deprived child. Well, I suppose I was never deprived of health food like oatmeal and tofu, but I only got white bread with swe...more
My daughter came home all excited about reading this book in school today. My son then chimed in and I soon had two children dancing around my kitchen telling me all about this book and laughing hysterically. I supposed I should read it myself before I recommend it, but my children definately gave it "two thumbs up"!
This is a cute book. I like how the food rains from the sky for every meal. The book is different from the movie so you can still read it to the kids who have seen the movie. I would recommend reading this book to kids ages 4-7. I think they would enjoy the fact that food falls from the sky.
This is one of the favorite children's books I read to my first and second graders for six years! It's cleverly written, and the illustrations are a lot of fun! I still remember being so delighted the first time I read it, and I got numerous requests to reread it to my classes.
In the town of Chewandswallow, people don’t have to worry about grocery bills. They don’t go to the store for food or spend time in the kitchen making dinner. This is because in Chewandswallow the food actually falls from the sky. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner all come from different kinds of weather. One day there was a shower of orange juice followed by toast and eggs and another day hotdogs blew in from the west with a sprinkle of mustard. However, the town starts experiencing a period of bad...more
Grades: 2nd grade
Genre: Science Fiction
Characters: Henry, the grandfather, and the sister
Setting: The setting takes place in the town of Chewandswallow.
POV: It is told from the grandfather’s point of view.
In the town of Chewsandswallows, it rains food three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner consisting of foods and a drink. Suddenly, the food takes a turn for the worst and comes up with odd food choices, such as, pea soup fog, soggy green beans, and Brussels sprout cakes. Next, the fo...more
Genre: Science Fiction
Characters: Henry, the grandfather, and the sister
Setting: The setting takes place in the town of Chewandswallow.
POV: It is told from the grandfather’s point of view.
In the town of Chewsandswallows, it rains food three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner consisting of foods and a drink. Suddenly, the food takes a turn for the worst and comes up with odd food choices, such as, pea soup fog, soggy green beans, and Brussels sprout cakes. Next, the fo...more
Fountas-Pinnel Guided Reading: M
Genre: Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Characters: Henry, the grandfather, and the sister
Setting: The setting takes place in the town of Chewandswallow.
POV: It is told from the grandfather’s point of view.
In the town of Chewsandswallows, it rains food three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner consisting of foods and a drink. Suddenly, the food takes a turn for the worst and comes up with odd food choices, such as, pea soup fog, soggy green beans, and Brusse...more
Genre: Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Characters: Henry, the grandfather, and the sister
Setting: The setting takes place in the town of Chewandswallow.
POV: It is told from the grandfather’s point of view.
In the town of Chewsandswallows, it rains food three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner consisting of foods and a drink. Suddenly, the food takes a turn for the worst and comes up with odd food choices, such as, pea soup fog, soggy green beans, and Brusse...more
One night, after a pancake flies off the stove top and onto Henry’s hair, a grandfather tells his two grandchildren the tall tale of the tiny town of Chewandswallow. Chewandswallow had everything most small towns have, stores, houses, a school, people, dogs, cats, but what it didn’t have were food stores because they weren’t needed. Instead of buying it off the shelf, food arrived three times a day by weather. The townspeople took their plates and cups everywhere so they would be ready if it rai...more
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I LOVE THIS BOOK!
Who would have known such a wonderful and I mean Wonder-Full book could have turned into such a successful movie. To be honest… I prefer the book.
As a child we would go to the library to check out book. In the corner of my childhood library I found this old beat up dusty book with a strange title. Remembering that I should never judge a book by its cover I checked it out and it changed my perspective on everything.
What if one-day food could fall from the sky just the same as rai...more
Who would have known such a wonderful and I mean Wonder-Full book could have turned into such a successful movie. To be honest… I prefer the book.
As a child we would go to the library to check out book. In the corner of my childhood library I found this old beat up dusty book with a strange title. Remembering that I should never judge a book by its cover I checked it out and it changed my perspective on everything.
What if one-day food could fall from the sky just the same as rai...more
This story is about a grandfather telling his grandchildren a bedtime story of a far away tiny town called Chewy and Swallow. This town looked the same as any other town but special things would happen in this town that you wouldn’t believe. The sky would give the town all of their three meals. They would have breakfast, lunch, and dinner delivered by the weather. It would rain hamburgers, juice, and even sunny side up eggs. Soon after the all the food was overbearing. The food started to get bi...more
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is such a fun and creative story. I characterize this book as fantasy/science fiction for both primary and intermediate ages. This story is about the town Chewandswallow and how it "pours" or "clears up" food. Everyday breakfast, lunch, and dinner fall from the sky due to technological advances discovered by a young boy. The town gets more than they bargained for when it is being covered by huge amounts of food. The genre science fiction aims to make the reader...more
Ah, to live in a land where you never had to worry about from where your next meal would come. Where you never had to cook. Where you never had to go grocery shopping. What a world that would be! But like any land, it would come with its own set of problems.
This delightful children’s book by Judi Barrett opens on a Sunday morning with gray-scale line drawings of a family eating breakfast and the grandfather flipping pancakes. There are smiles all around, especially when Grandpa flips a pancake a...more
This delightful children’s book by Judi Barrett opens on a Sunday morning with gray-scale line drawings of a family eating breakfast and the grandfather flipping pancakes. There are smiles all around, especially when Grandpa flips a pancake a...more
I am so delighted with how my 6th graders responded to this book. Sometimes when I share a picture book with them, they sit back on their heels and frown skeptically at me, as if to say, "Ms. Frei...we're too old for this." I was especially worried when several kids piped up right away that they have known and read this book since they were little. I thought, "Oh, no. They're going to be so bored and patronized."
NOT AT ALL. There were giggles and gasps and outbursts of ideas at every page. The...more
NOT AT ALL. There were giggles and gasps and outbursts of ideas at every page. The...more
1. Picture Book- Other
2. A bedtime story from grandpa will magically transport you to the tiny town of Chewandswallow. There is no cooking in Chewandswallow because the food falls from the sky.
3. a. Descriptive language
b. I love the way this story is told. I had seen the movie but had never read the book. I think that the author’s wild imagination combined with the use of descriptive language that the reader can begin to believe there may just be a tiny town of this sort. The food is described...more
2. A bedtime story from grandpa will magically transport you to the tiny town of Chewandswallow. There is no cooking in Chewandswallow because the food falls from the sky.
3. a. Descriptive language
b. I love the way this story is told. I had seen the movie but had never read the book. I think that the author’s wild imagination combined with the use of descriptive language that the reader can begin to believe there may just be a tiny town of this sort. The food is described...more
1. This book would fall under the category of a picture book, other.
2. This book has a grandfather who tells his favorite bedtime story to his grandchildren. He tells of a town where food falls from the sky to feed the townspeople.
3. critique
a. The strongest part of this book is its descriptive language.
b. This story is set up like a tall tale – and it tells you. Grandpa tells his story that is so amazing and imaginative that it pulls you inside and makes you feel and taste the foods that he...more
2. This book has a grandfather who tells his favorite bedtime story to his grandchildren. He tells of a town where food falls from the sky to feed the townspeople.
3. critique
a. The strongest part of this book is its descriptive language.
b. This story is set up like a tall tale – and it tells you. Grandpa tells his story that is so amazing and imaginative that it pulls you inside and makes you feel and taste the foods that he...more
Synopsis: "The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so di...more
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” is a cult classic children’s book by Judi Barrett along with illustrations by Ron Barrett and it is about a magical town called Chewandswallow (chew and swallow, get it?) where food just falls from the sky and provides people with everything they need. But what happens when there is too much food falling from the sky? “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” is definitely one unusual and creative book ever created for children!
Judi Barrett has certainly done an exc...more
Judi Barrett has certainly done an exc...more
With the arrival of the movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs to the silver screen, I thought I would revisit the original book, since it had been a long time since I had read it. I do not wish to critique the differences between the movie and the book, but rather to examine elements of the book itself. The book seems to start out as realistic fiction. A mother, two children (a boy and a girl), and a grandfather sit down for a nice pancake breakfast. As the grandfather prepares the pancakes,...more
This is one of my favorite books! There are so many ways to use this book in a classroom or library. It can be used for economics, weather, creative writing, etc.
The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind ble...more
The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind ble...more
This is my favorite picture book. Even as a teenager, I'd hunt his book up from time to time to make sure I'd memorized all the lines correctly.
This story reads exactly like all stories told by your grandfather are supposed to. The ones where, as a kid, you keep saying 'really!', then try to verify everything via grandma, who then yells at grandpa for filling your head with nonsense.
This story reads exactly like all stories told by your grandfather are supposed to. The ones where, as a kid, you keep saying 'really!', then try to verify everything via grandma, who then yells at grandpa for filling your head with nonsense.
I, and the many children I've read this to, loved this book. The fantastic story of a town where the weather reports predicts the menu for breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and then what happens when the weather stops being predictable and convenient! One year we had a backyard circus with a "clown's picnic", a legitimate reason for a planned food fight, another childhood dream. It was thoroughly enjoyed but I overheard kids talking about how it actually felt to have whipped cream all over your f...more
There are a million reasons to love this book, but above all, it's about a town where it storms food! Who wouldn't love that?
OK, for real, this book encourages kids to stretch their imagination. It has lots of fantasy and creative writing with the aid of amazing color and B&W illustrations. When me and my artist husband finally collaborate on a book, I will definitely look to this book for inspiration. A must have for kids of all ages. Period.
OK, for real, this book encourages kids to stretch their imagination. It has lots of fantasy and creative writing with the aid of amazing color and B&W illustrations. When me and my artist husband finally collaborate on a book, I will definitely look to this book for inspiration. A must have for kids of all ages. Period.
Of course the reason I had to check this book out was because of the movie. I had to admit, I was a bit surprised; I mean, I understand that sometimes Hollywood version of things differ from the stories' originals sources but in this case, it almost seemed like two different stories. There was no mad scientist, no goofy reporter, no talking monkey (no talking at all in fact, just a narrative from the granddaughter about her grandpa's bedtime story) and the whole sub-story about the scientist try...more
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a classic book about a Grandfather who tells his grandchildren a tall tale about a town that gets breakfast, lunch and dinner from the weather. It rains food. One day, the weather gets so awful that the people have to abandon their town. They start a new town and have to buy food from the grocery store.
The illustrations in this book are mostly black and white with some things accented with shades of red and yellow. Without the pictures, this book would not...more
The illustrations in this book are mostly black and white with some things accented with shades of red and yellow. Without the pictures, this book would not...more
When The Wife and I recently (finally?) saw the movie version of this, and she remarked occasionally how different from the book it is, she was shocked to learn that, as far as I can recall, I'd never read it! So the next time I was at the library I picked it up, along with its lesser-known sequel, and spent a few minutes reading it. Basically, this is a bedtime story that an old fellow tells to his two grandchildren about the island of Chewandswallow, where the weather manifests itself as food....more
The town of Chewandswallow was a place where the weather came at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and was always in the form of food and beverages. The rain was juice and soup, the snow was ice cream, and the wind brought hamburgers. When floods and storms of giant food came, the population is forced to leave Chewandswallow on boats made of bread, and adapt to their new lives in the world where the sky doesn't bring food.
Age/Grade Level: K-3
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Age/Grade Level: K-3
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Judi Barrett is the author of many well-loved books for children, including Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Pickles to Pittsburgh, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, and Things That Are Most in the World. She teaches art to kindergarten students at a school in her Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood. And she usually doesn't mind going to the dentist!
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