Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Reading Chest) 4 paperback Books plus Cassette

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The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast lunch and dinner.

But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers.

Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. the town was a mess and the people feared for their lives.

Something had to be done, and in a hurry.

What Customers Say About Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Reading Chest) 4 paperback Books plus Cassette:

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.

Things are wonderful, err, delicious until the food starts getting too big with somewhat predictable consequences. The book is very different from the movie of the same name, though we love the movie as well. My son (now 5) and daughter (7) and I have always loved this book. 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 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. 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.

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

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.

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