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Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) |  | Author: Judi Barrett
Creator: Ron Barrett
Publisher: Turtleback
List Price: $17.20
Buy New: $15.48
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  226 reviews
Media: School & Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 0881031313
EAN: 9780881031317
Publication Date: May 1, 1982
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 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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 Another hit with my son May 7, 2010
J. Ghigliotti (Oklahoma City, OK USA)
My son loves this story and when I ask him to pick out what he would like he always gets this one. Fun for the whole family.
It's not raining cats or dogs, but it sure is raining pizzas and donuts! April 1, 2010
Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
Oh, I remember this one when I was a little kid. I always enjoyed reading this whenever I had the chance. Now that I came back to this, it's still just as great as it was in my childhood. It had such a powerful message about greed and substance abuse, but everyone always remembers this one because of the artwork. Ron Barrett did an incredible job with the illustrations. They were creative and even very delicious to look at. Where else can you find a children's book where there are donuts chasing you on the street or a tomato tornado bringing chaos into your neighborhood? But anyway, this is a classic children's book; it was published back in 1978, but it still has never aged. It has a creative premise, beautiful artwork, clever writing, and a good lesson for the kids. And you don't have to be a child in order to enjoy this; people of all ages can read this one. Congratulations to Judi & Ron Barrett for this wonderful piece of work.
Don't Just Watch the Movie! April 1, 2010
J. Beach (Colorado)
Great example of a Grandpa tall tale! This story is fun for adults to read to children and for children to have read to them. For that matter, it's fun just to read to yourself. The illustrations are excellent, but this story would be fun for listeners or readers to just use their imagination. It brings a smile to the heart which is even better than a smile on your face.
 A delightful blast from the past. February 22, 2010
G. Schienbein (AB Canada)
I loved this book when I was a little girl. It was one I could read again and again. The illustrations fascinated me and the story is very imaginative. I was delighted to find it again!
One of our Favorites February 11, 2010
Robert Stone (Midwest / Ohio)
My son (now 5) and daughter (7) and I have always loved this book. The book is very different from the movie of the same name, though we love the movie as well. The book is the charming story as told by Grandpa of the tiny town of Chewandswalla (I may not be spelling that right) where all the food people eat comes from the sky. The story is inspired by Grandpa's accidental flipping of a pancake on the head of one of his grandchildren (Henry) and is introduced as "the best tall tale bedtime story" he ever told. Things are wonderful, err, delicious until the food starts getting too big with somewhat predictable consequences. I think our favorite is either the giant pancake that closed the school or perhaps the "tomato tornado" with an illustration that looks like it was lifted from The Wizard of Oz.
The illustrations are excellent with an amazing amount of detail which is clearly intended to amuse the adults reading this book. The prose is somewhat lyrical and fun to read. Other reviewers have pointed out that kids won't get the weather jokes in this book and that is certainly true - but with the almost rhyming quality of the text and fun illustrations it really doesn't matter in that the kids love it anyway.
This is definitely one of our favorites, along with others such as The Relatives Came and The Hello Goodbye Window.
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