Synopsis Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
There's no need for grocery stores in the city of Chewandswallow: food rains down from the sky. But a change in the weather blows in massive problems... Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1978.
This is quite possibly the only picture book in which the sun is portrayed as a giant Jell-O mold and mustard arrives in the form of hail. There's no need for grocery stores in the city of Chewandswallow: food rains down from the sky. But a change in the weather blows in massive problems....Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1978.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1978-08-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 32 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 10.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Note 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 pople feared for their lives. Something had to be done, and in a hurry.
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