Cloudy and the chance of meatballs book

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

A sequel, Pickles to Pittsburgh , was published in by Atheneum Books; a hardcover edition followed in A cookbook special, Grandpa's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Cookbook , was released with a variety of fabulous cooking ideas. The book details a bedtime story narrated by a grandfather to his grandchildren, chronicling the daily lives of the citizens of an unordinary town called Chewandswallow characterized by its strange daily meteorological pattern that provides the townsfolk with all of their required daily meals by raining food. Although the residents of the town enjoy a lifestyle devoid of any grocery shopping or cookery, the weather unexpectedly and inexplicably takes a turn for the worst, devastating the local community with destructive and uncontrollable storms of either unpleasant or dangerously oversized foods, resulting in unstoppable catastrophes for the townspeople. Their lives endangered by the threats of the storms, they relocate to a different community of average meteorological patterns, safe from the hazards that once were presented by raining meals. However, they are forced to learn how to obtain food the normal way. The following morning, the man's grandchildren awaken to discover snowfall.