Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett (Illustrator)
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- Age Range: 4 to 8
- Pub. Date: April 1982
- 32pp
- Sales Rank: 673
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 1982
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Format: Paperback, 32pp
- Sales Rank: 673
- Age Range: 4 to 8
- ISBN-13: 9780689707490
- ISBN: 0689707495
- Edition Number: 1
Synopsis
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. Ron Barrett dishes up some droll art work in this zany tall tale.
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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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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!
Ron Barrett's children book illustrations have been honored by the Society of Illustrators and have been exhibited at The Louvre in Paris. He has illustrated many books for children including Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: Pickles to Pittsburgh, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, and Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballsby rainwalkerSL
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October 26, 2009: This is a book written for food and cooking enthusiasts. I've loved this book since it first came to my attention 15 years ago. Food falling out of the sky? WOW! I have read the book to all my students (1st, 2nd and 4th graders at an all boys school) when I was teaching and it never failed to capture their imaginations. The reading was alwaya followed by a writitng activity (what foods would you like ot see falling from the sky and why?) or an art project (create a scene of your favorite foods falling from the sky). I haven't seen the movie and don't plan to see it. The art work in the book is priceless - especially the expressions on the people's faces. I just bought another copy to give to my newborn niece.
Limited Christian Application: Meatballs and Mannaby Seminarian
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October 04, 2009: I was struck by an analogy of Meatballs to Manna and from there to Jesus as the Bread of Life, John 6: 48-51: (Jesus is speaking)
"I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever: and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."I used this for a children's message at church, prior to a sermon on the passage above.Have fun.
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