Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

There's Food In The Forecast

A tasty tale for your kids. Whimsical illustrations and a delightful storyline. Fun and imaginative, all in one.

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

One of my Favs

This is one of my most treasured memories. I recommend it to anyone looking for a gift for their children, siblings, nefews, grandchildren, etc. It is a children's classic and just looking at the cover takes me back to elementary school.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

The weirdest book

I like this book because iy's a bedtime story to me. It's about two kids that get their grandpa to tell them a bedtime story. The bedtime story is about that every day it rains food and drinks. But the food keeps getting bigger and bigger and it gets out of control.

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Favorite book as a kid

I loved this book when I was a kid. Our copy is definately a little torn up, it was requested so much.

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Always a fun book to read!

My children love this book. My 7 year old will read it to my 5 year old almost every evening. They both giggle while reading it. Fun book.

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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

What a great book for gift giving and reading aloud to my Grandkids. They love it!

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Excellent for young readers

My kids loved the crazy story about food coming from the sky. If your kidsa are intothe weather this will bring a little humor into your daily reading.... Very cute. We bought the sequel too, Pickels to Pittsburgh.

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A Must Read, Hilarious Book

A book to be devoured....delicious and rich in imagination and creativity. Fun not only to read but to make into a book project! We just end up reading this book over and over and over again.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

My favorite book

This is a book I grew up on and have passed down to my children and they have enjoyed it as well since it is silly and imaginative. It used to be a pretty diffifult book for me to read when I was younger but it helped put me to the challenge of reading at an advanced level.

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i love this book

i always loved this book ever since i can remember. i used to check it out in elementary school all the time . it took me almost 16 yrs. to find it now i still catch myself reading it almost weekly

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ELMER'S BOOK REVIEW-3RD GRADE

This book is about a small town that gets their food from the sky and Grandpa's telling the story. It took place through one ocean, one huge mountain, three hot deserts, and one smaller ocean to a town called Chewandswallow, and Grandpa was there when a horrible thing happened. My favorite part of this book was when a pancake fell on top of the school and they had to close it down. I liked the pictures because they were creative and well drawn. I rate this book a nine out of ten and two thumbs up. If you like funny, entertaining, very weird books, I would recommend this book to you. This book is't hard or easy it's medium so you would like it. The best thing is taht my little sister and brother get an imagination on what the story is about and it's easy for my brother and sister to read. So if you read this book I hope you enjoy, and also if you look very closely in the book, you could find Grandpa.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Favorite kids book

This is my favorite book from childhood. I love the illustrations, I was disappointed that the movie looked so vastly different from the book I couldn't bring myself to watch it. This is a must have in book collection!

Great book for all ages

This was one of my favorites as a kid and I just purchased it for my new baby girl. The illustrations are excellent and the story ignites your imagination.

highy recommended

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

This story starts off with a grandfather who tells his grandchildren about a town called Chewandswollow. This looks like any other town at first glance, but there are no grocery stores and restaurants have no kitchen. This town has crazy weather 3 times a day at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It rains eggs and bacon or hamburgers every kind of food one can think of. Life in this town was wonderful for the people until one day it took turn for the worse. During one of the meals the food started to get bigger and bigger. It started to crush cars and buildings. A giant pancake fell on the school so children could not attend. Food that didn't go together stared to fall. They were in the middle of a huge food storm. The town's people didn't know what to do should they stay or should they evacuate their beloved town. And how should the leave their town of Chewandswollow. Read this book and see what happens to this town you won't be sorry.
This is a great fun story for children of any age. It has great and colorful illustrations that all children will enjoy. This book could be used for in class activities from kindergarten to 5th grade. This book would be a great to do a whole unit plan on. One suggestion is a lesson on food groups students can learn about the different food groups and see how many of those food groups were represented in the story. Another lesson can be done on. Another good lesson would be on weather. Students can learn about the different types of weather factors associated with the types of weather and they can predict the weather for the next week. These are just a few suggestions of lessons for this book but the possibilities are endless.

Ahhh memories

Like almost everyone else in the reviews have mentioned, I remember this book from childhood. I remember everytime I read it, I always ended up hungry, lol...a great childrens book indeed.

Love this book

Great book!

Good for in a classroom

I uses this book in my classroom to teach compound words and also a closure to a weather unit

Cloudy

One of my childhood favorites! I had to purchase it for my nephew so that he could be informed of the REAL DEAL when the movie was released.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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 Manna

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.