| | |  | Children's Books | Home » » » Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | | | | | | | Description: | | 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? | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780689707490
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Judi Barrett | | Paperback:
| 32 pages | | Publisher:
| Atheneum | | Publication Date:
| April 01, 1982 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0689707495 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 223 reviews |
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 A delightful blast from the past.Feb 22, 2010
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 FavoritesFeb 11, 2010
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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Children's BookFeb 09, 2010
My grandchildren & I read the book several times before they saw the movie. They still wanted to read the book with me. I am (as usual) honored
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LOVE it!!!Jan 16, 2010
I bought this for my 3 yr old daughter and she loves it!! It definitely tickles the imagination and definitely a lot of laughs for the entire family! Its a fun easy read and my 3 yr old is never bored!!
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Cloudy With a Chance of MeatballsJan 11, 2010
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is a great book for young readers and for adults to read to children. I read it to my children and now I have it to read to my grandchildren
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