false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165652464m/8073.jpg 8073 17 Grab your plates! In the land of Chewandswallow, meals - rather than rain or snow - fall from the sky. But something goes awry: the food falling from the sky gets larger and larger, causing the residents to make an escape before being squashed by giant pancakes or rolls. Will they cope with the natural disaster or be forced to make a run for it? 11045 1978 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs total:5554|5:2982|4:1634|3:785|2:127|1:26| 5554 24081 6211 536 5 1 false false Wed Oct 08 12:02:21 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 14:58:14 -0800 2008
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 st...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Nov 02 11:07:17 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 11:42:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:10:43 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:14:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Nov 21 14:42:52 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 14:45:00 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Sat Dec 27 18:04:53 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 18:04:53 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Fri Apr 13 09:31:28 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 13 09:34:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 23:28:38 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 13:57:16 -0700 2009 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...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Dec 25 18:34:12 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 18:37:16 -0800 2008
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 tr...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Thu Sep 20 08:22:41 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 08:22:41 -0700 2007
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 illustratio...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 12 21:54:32 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 17:40:06 -0700 2009
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?

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Illustrator: Ron Barrett

Genre: fictional picture book

Publication Info: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (1978)

Reading Level: Ages 4-8; transitional

Topic/Theme: different food, imagination, weather,

Issu...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 17:35:13 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 17:35:25 -0700 2009 Bibliographic Reference: Barrett, J. (1978). Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.
Illustrator: Ron Barrett
Summary: This is such a cute story! It is about a town Chewandswallow. In this town, each day a new food come...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 21:23:56 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 21:27:17 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 13:38:47 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 13:40:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 19:23:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 22:22:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 10:53:10 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 11:05:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu May 21 12:30:11 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 12:37:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Sep 22 13:06:19 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 13:10:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 19 11:22:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 11:28:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 27 09:39:23 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 10:03:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=8073