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Arts & Humanities > Children's Literature Book reviews: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi Barrett: 9 of 12

I knew everything about the land of Chewandswallow before I could even read: Judi Barrett's book is a children's classic that I had memorized by the time I was four, and even once I had moved on to bigger things like chapter books, I still returned to the paperback section to read about meatball rainstorms. The book takes the reader on an imaginative tour through a town where the weather snow, rain and sunshine are replaced by meatballs, jello and giant pancakes. Such a simple idea, but one that has found a place in the childhood memories of many Americans. The text is minimal, but the sto...
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