Judi Barrett - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Pros: Wonderful, imaginative story
Cons: Nothing

When we came home from seeing Monsters vs. Aliens, my daughters ran straight for their room. From the sounds through the door I knew they were rummaging through the bookshelves in their closet. And when my five year old said, "Mom, we can't find it!" I ...

Pros: Imaginative story and pictures with added gags
Cons: None

Somehow I missed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs growing up.  I'd heard the title, but never read the story.  It turns out I was missing out on a gem of a picture book.After a funny accident at breakfast, Grandpa weaves a tale ...

Pros: Imaginative
Cons: None

My favorite children's book that I read over and over, while snuggled in my comforter on those cold winter nights, was Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. I loved the book so much that not only had I worn the cover out, but I had memorized it word...

Pros: Illustrations, absurd and hilarious story line
Cons: Dares you to think about sanitary food handling

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...

Pros: Wonderfully Bizarre Story With Delightful Pictures
Cons: Might Encourage Your Kids To Toss Their Food Off The Roof

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs written by Judi Barrett and drawn by Ron Barrett is one of the most delightful children’s books that I have ever read and owned. This is a book that I can remember my mother reading to me. Our...

Pros: the kids in my First Grade shriek with laughter
Cons: none noted

fun read ~~~ highly recommended ~~~ 5 stars THE REVIEW In the town of CHEWANDSWALLOW, the citizens eat or drink whatever falls from the sky. The narrative begins with a grandfather flipping pancakes. Without warning, ...

Pros: Unusual , classic children's tale
Cons: May cause intense food cravings and the ending is a little unsatisfying

Tall tales and fanciful weather forecasts take center stage in the classic children’s book, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. I purchased my copy based on a reading list of...

Pros: A gorgeous classic full of creativity and brilliant illustration.
Cons: Is best if you sit WITH your child and read it together. (That's a con?"

When I came here to write a review for "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," I was expecting to not even find it in the epinions database. I have owned a copy of the book since I was 2 years old - that's 1981 - and it is still in fairly good condition. ...

Pros: great pictures; funny story
Cons: none

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, written by Judith Barrett, is a child's fantasy world come true, at least in part. That part being food.. lots of food.. food.. in the form of weather?!

But that's just the way things are in the town of...

Pros: Fun, imaginative story
Cons: None

What if, when the sky grew dark and cloudy, spaghetti fell from the sky instead of rain? What if, in your town, you had to eat whatever fell from the sky because there were no grocery stores? Does eating nothing but green peas for days and days sound...

Pros: Entertaining fantasy. Nine year olds will love it.
Cons: None.

Welcome to the town of Chewandswallow, Grandpa’s hometown. Chewandswallow has no stores because all the food that the town needs falls from the sky three times a day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner rain from the sky, and the residents just bring their ...

Pros: The illustrations were excellent.
Cons: everything else.

The only thing good I can say about this book, was that the artwork was beautiful. I also liked the grandfather's tall tale.

If the author stopped describing food... oh, about 8 pages into it, it might've held our interest. I kept finding...

Pros: teaches many skills
Cons: none

This is an excellent book for children with imagination. It starts off with grandpa making breakfast and turns into a dream town of Chewandswallow (read Chew and Swallow--it took me forever to get this one). The children at the preschool I teach at ask...

Pros: funny, exciting, imaginative
Cons: none

This is a wonderful children's book that children of any age could appreciate. The story begins with a grandfather telling his grandchildren a bedtime story about a tiny town called Chewandswallow.

This is a most peculiar town in that its...

Pros: very well illustrated, story leaves a lot to the child's imagination
Cons: too short....I want 6 or 8 sequels!

When I think of my childhood, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is generally one of the first things that comes to mind.

Food is pretty important when you're a kid....and imagining a world where food fell from the sky, well, was just about the...