The people constructed boats out of stale bread cemented together sandwich-style with peanut butter, gathered all their belongings and set sail to find a new home. With no way to stop the weather, the townspeople had no choice but to abandon Chewandswallow in order to survive. The food began to increase in size and started creating natural disasters, such as a hurricane of hard bread and rolls that damaged buildings and filled the seaside bay, after which it took the town weeks to clean up.Īnother disaster was a colossal pancake and syrup storm, during which a gigantic pancake covered the whole school and was impossible to remove, leading the school to be permanently closed.Ī few days later, there came a 15 inch drift of cream cheese and jam sandwiches that gave everyone indigestion and next day brought a salt and pepper wind accompanied by a tomato tornado.īefore long, the Sanitation department service had to cease operation as they were unable to handle the continuous deluge of oversized, unappetizing food. The weather began to create problems for the town with events such as a flood of spaghetti creating a tangle in a traffic intersection, Gorgonzola cheese raining down for a whole day, and a pea soup fog. Life was happy in the town of Chewandswallow but, suddenly, the weather took the townspeople in a turn for the worse. For the residents of Chewandswallow, this was a much better arrangement. It also fed the fallen food to the dogs, cats, land wildlife and sealife, and also used other leftovers to enrich garden soil. The town also had a sanitation department a food-cleaning service that would clean up food left over.

Unlike typical weather, the weather over Chewandswallow always consisted of food, and came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinnertime. The grandchildren are named Henry and Kate, though the narrating girl is not named until the sequel.Īs the story goes Chewandswallow was mostly like any average small town but because the sky provided all the food, the town was devoid of food stores. Inspired by an incident while making pancakes at breakfast, a grandfather tells a bedtime story, chronicling the lives of the citizens of an imaginary town called Chewandswallow, which is characterized by food raining from the sky. A second sequel, Planet of the Pies, was published on August 27, 2013. Ī sequel, Pickles to Pittsburgh, was published in 1997 by Atheneum Books a hardcover edition followed in 2009. It was one of the 'Top 100 Picture Books' of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its 'Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children'. It was first published in 1978 by Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Paperbacks. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett.

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